Episode 57 of A VerySpatial podcast covers a very interesting interview with Craig Gillgrass from ESRI talking about the geodatabase in the upcoming ArcGIS 9.2 release.
It gives a good overview about the new geodatabase concept, starting with file-based geodatabases, mentioning new packages like Personal ArcSDE – bundled with ArcGIS Desktop, runs on top of Microsoft SQL Server Express (!!), should allow up to 2 users and is targeted to small companies – and finishing with ArcGIS Server / ArcSDE Enterprise.
All in all it’s extremely interesting and clarifying information for somebody like me who wasn’t attending ESRI’s UC 2006 and just got confused about the new geodatabases. I guess it’s time to get one of the updated product schemas to finally understand all connections and relations between the ArcGIS product lines.