<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I have heard similar reasoning along that line. Please share your results as some of us will be one day asked to do the same silly exercise. <br><br>-Yurong Tan<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:23 PM, "Keith Sandell" <<a href="mailto:Keith.Sandell@citizensfla.com">Keith.Sandell@citizensfla.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Shruggers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My purchasing department is making me do a cost benefit
analysis of paying our annual maintenance to ESRI versus abandoning ESRI in
favor of some other GIS software, if there is such as thing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any comparable GIS suites out there that have the
same, or greater, functionality as Desktop and Server 10?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And what is there cost to replace, and implement, 2 ArcInfo
concurrent use licenses, 1 ArcGIS Server Std Enterprise license and 1 EDN
license?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Silly exercise, but one I have to do nonetheless.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Keith
Sandell, MBA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-variant:small-caps;color:gray">GIS Manager, Corporate Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-variant:small-caps;color:gray">Citizens Property Insurance Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-variant:small-caps;color:gray">2101 Maryland Circle, Tallahassee, Florida
32303<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:gray">ofc. 850.521.8341 | cell 850.727.2897</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"If we are to
achieve results never before accomplished we must expect to employ methods
never before attempted." - Francis Bacon</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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