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ESRI User Conference 2007 - Day 1 Summaries

posted by Satri on Tuesday June 19, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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With this week's ESRI User Conference 2007, attracting 13,500 GIS professionals, expect several posts regarding this important event in the geospatial world. Very Spatial offer long and informative morning plenary notes (congrats VS for your Award), including informing us Arc products 9.3 will be available in 2008, APB shares some info on ArcGIS Server 9.3 and the repositioning of GITA on infrastructure, the It is what it is blog provide it's own critical summary of the UC, Scrappad has notes on the upcoming ArcGIS 9.3 products, Spatially Adjusted informs us about RSS feeds available for ESRI support categories, the VE4Gov blog discuss the announced ESRI REST API and finally, ESRI's Dave Bouwman shares his own plenary notes. Expect additional links to blog entries in the comments below.

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