Open data access with support for Oracle, IBM's DB2 Universal Database and DataJoiner , Informix, Microsoft's SQL Server, and Sybase, plus easy access to data stored in ESRI's Coverage, Map Library, ArcStorm software, and shapefile formats. Extends commercial DBMS security, backup, recovery, and integrity to spatial and CAD data. Commitment to open standards like the Open GIS Consortium's Simple Feature Specification for SQL and ISO's SQL 3. A free GIS data exploration tool that can work on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers. The world's most popular desktop mapping and GIS software that places mapping and spatial analysis capabilities at your fingertips.
Optional extensions expand the power of desktop geographic analysis.
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