Latest Contributions by HarryBowman1

donfelice - To which open source software did you switch? Does it have geocoding? We need better performance ASAP. ... View more

We also are actively working to abandon this unusable software. We use it 90% to manage some datasets in bulk and then to do address matching of about 150 million addresses. Everything is faster, more reliable, and easier, by orders of magnitude, using SQL Server directly. Only visual inspection of the data and fuzzy matching require GIS, and we are going to find other software to use. IT has built its own geocoder from scratch, out of frustration with your product.  ArcGIS 10 tabular performance is unusably bad. Our plan is to try 10.1 for a couple weeks after it comes out. If table performance is not, say, 10x better, we are going to abandon the software. I will be looking for another gig at that point, since GIS is why I was hired, but business realities are more important. Listen to your users - 1000 new features, but bugs and crummy performance, do not equal business success. The college course comment below is key - once people find other, better performing, cheaper alternatives, they will never come back. My only thought is that ESRI intends to abandon ArcGIS desktop and push everyone to do all their work via web APIs, lightweight viewer apps, and do all thinking on the server. What else could explain the spectacular bugs (Spatial Join) and performance degradations for Desktop 10.0? ... View more