ESRI User Conference: Wednesday
I spent plenty more time in the islands today, and I think the ESRI developers now are starting to look at the floor when they see me so they don’t have to talk to me anymore ;). I asked a question about whether or not ArcIMS supports query against specific versions in ArcSDE at version 9, but I didn’t get an answer. I might get an answer later, but for now, I can safely say that MapServer definitly does something that ArcIMS does with respect to ArcSDE.
I also found out today that ESRI will be end-of-lifing ArcView 3.x right after the conference. The specific term that the product specialist used was “extended support”, which means no updates and no certification with new operating systems (say, Windows XP SP2, for instance). This sucks, but it was coming. Too soon in my opinion, but there isn’t much we as Avenue users can do except lobby for them to open source ArcView 3.x so we can do what we need to with it.
I also made a contact with Wacom about getting a tablet/monitor for doing heads-up digitizing. This is something that could be very useful and much more efficient than doing the digitizing on-screen. I can’t wait to play with it.