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Software: ESRI

 

Product Name:  ArcGIS Desktop, ArcInfo Workstation, etc.  

 

Vendor:  ESRI  (Environmental System Research Institute, Inc.)    


Platforms:

  • All ESRI Products

    • Microsoft Windows

    • 2000 (32-bit only)

    • NT (32-bit only)

    • XP Pro (32- and 64-bit versions)

    • Server 2003  (32- and 64-bit versions)

    • Vista (32- and 64-bit versions)
       

  • ArcInfo Workstation 9.1

    • Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP

    • Sun Solaris

    • HP PA-RISC HP-UX

    • SGI IRIC

    • IBM RS/6000 AIX

    • HP Tru64 UNIX

General Description:
 

ESRI describes ArcGIS as "an integrated collection of GIS software products for building and deploying a complete GIS wherever it is needed—on desktops, servers, or custom applications; over the Web; or in the field.

 

ESRI also defines GIS as "a geographic information system (GIS) [which] integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

Availability:

This product is installed in the centrally managed Windows Labs in the ADIT domain, located in CTLM and the Library, and possibly other campus labs. Additional installations may be made in accordance with the legal scope of the license described below.

Scope of License:

Campus-wide internal non-commercial use limited site license.

Details of License:

The product is available for installation on campus-owned machines and for use by faculty/staff/students for instructional, research, administrative and management of plant facilities purposes, but not for commercial use. Our level of licensing is "ArcInfo," the higher of the three levels (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView). The features we have licensed are:

  • ARC/INFO-Plotting Network

  • TIN COGO Grid

  • ArcScan ArcStorm

  • ArcStormEnable Publisher

  • TIFFLZW

  • ArcPress Survey Viewer

  • GeoStats Editor-StreetMap

  • Maplex Schematics Foundation

  • DataReViewer-MPSAtlas

  • MappingAgency

Media and Licensing Mechanisms:

The current collection consists of several score of CDs and DVDs. Most folks will not want quite all of this. A typical MS Windows installation will want:

  • ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 - 1 CD

  • ArcInfo Workstation 9.1 - 2 CDs

  • Optionally, ESRI Data & Maps - 2 DVDs or 2 CDs

Other CDs include

  • ArcView GIS 3.3 for Windows

  • ArcInfo, other platforms (HP-UX, HP Tru64, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris)

  • ArcInfo ArcDoc

  • ArcReader

  • ArcGIS Desktop Developer Kit

  • ESRI Software Documentation Library

  • ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial Data

  • Crystal Reports

  • ArcSDE

  • ArcGIS Engine Development Kit

  • ArcGIS Server

  • ArcGIS 3D Analyst/ArcGlobe Data

  • ArcView (single user)

  • ArcEditor (single user)

  • ArcIMS

  • Production Line Tool Set

  • ArcPad 7 and ArcPad Application Builder

  • ArcLogistics Route 3 and US Data

  • MapObjects 2 Standard, Windows, Java)

  • NetEngine, Windows, Unix

  • ArcGIS Schematics and Schematics SDK

  • BusinessMAP

  • ArcGIS Military Analyst

Licensing to use this product expires each year in the summer, and new keys are obtained.

 

Licensing Mechanisms:

  • Central license server -- this is the usual method.

  • Certain products use a special password (ArcView 3.3, ArcView/ArcEditor single user, ArcPad) -- if these products suffice, this is the usual method for laptops/PDAs taken off the campus network

  • Keyed to specific machine, with Dongle

Method for Obtaining:

If you need ESRI products installed on a CSM-owned machine, AC&N will want you to begin by submitting a request to the Mines Help Center.  Minimally we will need to know your name, your advisor or equivalent if you are a student, your phone extension, the machine's operating system, location and owner, and the general use to which the software will be put.  Please do not submit requests to install the software on a single or limited-number of lab machines; the software "build" on lab machines is frozen in support of the CSM academic mission and AC&N can not accommodate "on-the-fly" lab installations.

Cost to Qualified CSM End-Users:

Computing and Networking charges back $10 per seat per year ($1000/year maximum per department) for the use of this license on CSM-owned machines.

Licensing:

Licensing for this product expires every summer; new keys are renewed/obtained annually.

Frequency of Updates:

An update, such as from 9.0 to 9.1, occurs about once a year

Documentation:

In Case of Difficulties Installing or Running the Software:

Contact us via the Mines Help Center!  We want to get you to where the program is properly installed and functional.  We can answer some questions about the use of the program, but we expect you to do the bulk of the work in that area.

Miscellaneous Notes:

ArcView 3.3 is a continuation of the style of program ESRI produced before they switched to the ArcGIS Desktop/ArcMap programs they currently feature. Some third-party extensions have not been updated yet, and so we maintain availability of this older style of product.

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Questions or comments -- open a ticket at the Mines Help Center.
Wednesday, 13-Aug-2008 12:32:20 MDT