Brown to room… any of you connecting other GIS products to your Geodatabase?

Clint Brown asks a room of about 300 or 400… “are there any of you who connect your GIS to other systems (CAD, GeoMedia, Microstation etc…)”there’s a quiet pause and about a dozen hands went up… WOW. Clint was amazed and I was equally surprised. Perhaps people are being shy, or there’s a room full of committed ESRI users here… amazing. Not to knock any of the other vendors but it’s quite amazing that more people don’t have multi-vendor licenses kicking around… boy have times changed!