tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181869995792268387.post2681739407633266827..comments2023-06-24T06:46:19.281-07:00Comments on ArcDevBlog: Is ArcSDE going to be around in 5 years?The Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01118461744179788792noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181869995792268387.post-36813551011655286062009-01-21T08:19:00.000-08:002009-01-21T08:19:00.000-08:00I was wondering this same thing the other day afte...I was wondering this same thing the other day after watching some Manifold demos. Not that I am using Manifold; however, if they can do it, how much longer until ESRI shelves SDE?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181869995792268387.post-40829773909978049802009-02-09T11:02:00.000-08:002009-02-09T11:02:00.000-08:00It would be a fantastic thing to see Oracle and Mi...It would be a fantastic thing to see Oracle and Microsoft start to implement topologies (spatial, network, etc) in their spatial extensions because it would tease these higher-level spatial concepts out in a form that would be more universal. The current standards for spatial data are about as rich as shapefiles (i.e., spaghetti in which the application has to sort out topology).<br><br>But I doubt you'll ever see ESRI entirely eliminate a middleware server like ArcSDE because there are higher level concepts that still haven't been made operational. These will live in middleware until they are stabilized as standards and back into the server.<br><br>Personally, I'd love to be able to start combining Oracle's semantic extensions with higher-level topologies and versioning. I don't get what's in ArcSDE because my front-end isn't ArcGIS. It's usually C++ or Python code - so I end up handling this stuff myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com