Of course, these capabilities come at a price. This tutorial covers version 3.0a of ArcView, released in late 1996. The tutorial was developed using the MS Windows version of ArcView. ESRI's development goals clearly place its software squarely in the rapidly growing Windows environment, as will be evidenced by ArcView 3.2 and later releases. Discounts are often negotiated, especially for multiple copies.
Academic users can get deep discounts.
Version 2 of ArcView, released in October 1994, saw major change in the interface for ArcView. The organizing files for AV 2, known as projects, appeared here, with .apr extensions in Windows versions. Unfortunately, version 2 software cannot read projects created by version 3. It also is quite limited in analytical capabilities. ArcExplorer ArcExplorer is a new software program for viewing data sets produced by ESRI software.