James Fee GIS Blog

Well I think most would agree, the 2008 DevSummit was one of the best.  There was tons of new stuff to learn about, much more attendees, more ESRI staff, better layout of the conference (the Community Center was particularly good) and better session (and more of them).  So what did I take away from the [...]

I don’t think there is anything wrong swinging by the office on the way home from the Developer Summit to pick up the 9.3 Beta disks to install tonight while I watch UCLA destroy Mississippi Valley State. My wife just doesn’t understand me but I’m happy with who I am. Lets see, I have my [...]

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 will be available by the end of March. This appears to be a “true” service pack release and not a feature release. I’m not sure I’ll bother installing it on our ArcGIS Server implementations, but we’ll deploy on all our ArcGIS Desktop seats. One change did catch my eye. Launching [...]

Announced earlier this month and talked about for at least a year (I think they mentioned this at the 2007 Dev Summit), ESRI is moving away from socket licensing to using the number of cores on the server. Through November 30, 2007, ESRI licensed server software based primarily on the number of physical sockets on [...]

We knew about this back in July, but ESRI has posted an announcement about Service Pack 4. Nothing about ArcGIS Server yet and that should be a big list because ESRI puts new features in their Service Packs. What is missing is the Vista support that was promised. I’m not sure why that isn’t listed [...]

There has been some discussion on my blog about the ArcGIS Online Data Appliance. Most ESRI users already know what is on the thing because they have had access to the ArcGIS Online Beta. The ArcGIS Appliance provides terabytes of pre-rendered U.S. nationwide and worldwide data that you can host on your own secure server. [...]

As most of you already have heard via either the new RSS feeds or the support email, ArcGIS 9.3 9.2 Service Pack 3 is ready to be released by the end of the month. Jack’s Q&A from before the UC said that it would be released in July and it appears that they have hit [...]

I didn’t see much about this out of the 2007 User Conference, but an updated Technical Article spells it out. ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop and ArcGIS 9.2 Engine are currently undergoing certification on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system with the 9.2 SP4 release targeted for October/November, 2007. Please note that this certification will not include [...]

UPDATE: I have no idea why ESRI doesn’t believe in permalinks so all those links below do nothing special. Sorry. I’m not going and probably most of you aren’t either so this might be your best bet as to getting an idea what might or might not be said Monday morning. ESRI International User Conference [...]

UPS dropped off a package of DVDs for our EDN subscriptions containing ArcGIS Image Server 9.2 SP1.

While it was announced at the Developer Summit, the “official” news that ArcGIS Image Server will be part of EDN is welcome. ArcGIS Image Server, a server-based solution that provides fast access and visualization of large quantities of file-based imagery processed on the fly and on demand, has been added to the suite of software [...]

As I’m sure many of you who subscribe to ESRI’s email announcement list saw, ESRI is planning to release ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 sometime near mid-april. For those who missed it, you can view the changes here. One thing to keep in mind is ESRI’s definintion of a Service Pack may be different then yours. These [...]

Rob Elkins and Dave Bouwman have some great posts on the morning sessions. Rather than repeat what they’ve written I’ll point you in their direction. Rob Elkins – 2nd Annual ESRI Developer Summit Rob Elkins – ArcGIS Server takes the Stage (Author – Server – Use) Rob Elkins – Plenary Session continues.. Rob Elkins – [...]

Back in November, before we all got our ArcGIS 9.2, ESRI posted an updated ArcGIS Desktop Life Cycle PDF that showed that ArcGIS 9.1 had entered “Extended Support”. I guess they changed their minds because it appears that 9.1 is still in “General Availability”. We are back to the ArcGIS 9.1 will be moved to [...]

Wondering if ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 will address your problem? Check out ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 – Announcement page and find out. The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 25, 2006. This service pack is to [...]

Rusty Planet reports that ESRI Tech Support is saying that Service Pack 1 for ArcGIS 9.2 will be delayed until after Christmas. The Tech Support operator did say that ESRI plans on releasing the Service Pack next week (week of December 25th). THERE IS NO SERVICE PACK HERE, NOW GO AWAY!

Jonathan emailed me to let me know that ESRI is now pushing ArcGIS Image Server on their front page. Image Server has always been sort of a phantom product, you heard about it at the conferences, but damn if you saw a thing on the website. Well there is an overview in the ESRI help [...]

Thanks to Joel for the heads up via email! The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 18, 2006. This service pack is to help address issues users have encountered in the ArcGIS 9.2 release. CD media will [...]

Yes as of today, the ArcGIS 9.2 beta is closed. All the beta forums are now read only (actually not all, but most) and beta users are supposed to use normal ESRI support methods. ESRI has created a new website, ArcGIS 9.2 Prerelease (login with your existing ESRI account), where you can still download software [...]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read that people are getting these three products confused. ArcGIS Explorer is ESRI’s ArcGIS Server desktop client. ArcExplorer is ESRI’s GIS viewer (either MapObjects or Java based) and ArcWeb Explorer is ESRI’s flash based ArcWeb browser client. About the only things that they have in common are [...]