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 the [...]
ESRI Changes Service Licensing
December 14th, 2007 · 14 Comments · ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ESRI
Tags:arcgis·ArcGIS Server·ArcIMS·ArcSDE·cores·ESRI·licensing·maintenance
The ArcGIS Online Data Appliance
November 5th, 2007 · 21 Comments · ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS Server, ESRI, Google, Google Earth
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. [...]
Tags:arcgis·arcgis image server·arcgis online·arcgis online data appliance·ArcGIS Server·ESRI·Google·Google Earth·google earth enterprise·licensing
