Recently ESRI (Jack Dangermond) announced to change the name for the next release from 9.4 to 10.0. In my opinion there has to be more than already promoted features for this release there have to be another joker which is not announced yet. What do you think? What will be the next big thing in ESRI ArcGIS 10?
10 suggestion what might come are (these respresent some of the most requested features for ArcGIS):
- support for Mac OS X (because of the X in the logo) [chance: 20%]
- Full rewrite of ArcObject, which made them native 64bit components. Full x64 support for all components (Engine, Desktop, Server) [change: 40%]
- full 3D GIS system (integrated volumetric geographical objects for all components) [chance: 90%]
- new approach to serve mobile GIS for new mobile Platforms like Android, iPhone OS and Blackberry. [chance: 75%]
- intuitive integration of “cloud” computing (e.g. Toolboxes can be naively published on the web and integrated from the web – from desktop to server) [chance: 60%]
- significant performance improvements (especially reading and writing large amounts of data both for filegeodatabases (fGDBs) as well as for SDE databases) [chance: 50%]
- close all bugs of features in the current release [change: 1%]
- several extensions are integrated in the main product (change of the licensing policy) [chance: 5%]
- ArcGIS is becoming a spatial-temporal GIS [change: 90%]
- major improvement of the ArcGIS Server REST interface (API will support native Geodatabase writing access) [chance: 80%]
Beta 2 will still be called 9.4. The final release will be mid to late Q2 2010.
