Taking a COTS-Based Approach to Implementing Enterprise GIS This whitepaper discusses reasons to consider a COTS-based versus a traditional implementation of an Enterprise GIS.
ArcGIS 10 Enterprise Deployment This technical whitepaper discusses enterprise deployment of ArcGIS 10.
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Esri is committed to supporting the best open source technology with our products. Esri consumes open source solutions in our software development cycle, and we support developers with extending the ArcGIS platform using open source tools.
Read the white paper ArcGIS for Server and Virtualization.