ESRI Dev Summit Plenary
Check the above for very thorough descriptions. Rather than regurgitate the same, here are some thoughts:
- The javascript frameworks are going to generate a ton of new apps- it's an opportunity for any organization that has ArcGIS Server running to serve their data & have everybody else use it without messing with it.
- More importantly, the web client support lessens the need to host both mapping applications & services on the same ArcGIS Server box (app vs. data).
- I'll talk about it in the mashup post, but the javascript libraries look to be dead simple if you've done a mashup before (or even some moderate DHTML use & read through the google maps examples)
- ArcGIS Mobile- I agree with Dave on wanting to try it out. The presentation they gave was a very good intro walkthrough.
- Deployment to mobile devices is a lot easier- we can download from ArcGIS Server (makes it a lot easier to do a quick install). Even a quick "view the map on the cellphone" app would help us at this point (Parks people out in the field).
- ArcGIS Explorer is maturing- I'm going to look forward to the future releases they showed.
So there's probably a reality distortion field set up in Palm Springs (the servers responded WAY too quickly), but from a programmer's standpoint, 9.3 looks to be a good release.
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