Why did ESRI used the suffix "Pro" in ArcGIS Pro???

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05-02-2020 05:42 PM
MiguelMartinez2
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Usually when you sell or distribute a software, and you offer a customer a "Pro" version, is usually the same version but with added tools, not an entirely different interface. So ESRI just did that with ArcGIS Pro, they are marketing the software as the "Pro" version of ArcMap, when in reality they are two completely different interlaces, and, how can a "Pro" version lack tools from a "Non-Pro" version like ArcMap? If ESRI already used the "Pro" in this new interface, what will they call the next one or an advanced version of this one, the Pro Pro??? Its like saying that ArcMap was the "Pro" version of ArcView. And everybody knows that when ArcMap came in December 1999, it has new tools, but it was missing a lot of ArcView tools.

So, is the software name "ArcGIS Pro" going to exists forever? Have we using a "Non-Pro" software for the past 20 years? And when ArcMap disappears, ArcGIS Pro will be the "Pro" version of what?

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DavidPike
MVP Frequent Contributor

I think they misspelled 'Slow'

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