Editing Esri (section)

=== Server GIS ===
Server GIS products provide GIS functionality and data deployed from a central environment. [[ArcGIS Server]] is an Internet application service, used to extend the functionality of ArcGIS Desktop software to a browser based environment. It is available on Solaris and Linux as well as Windows. [[ArcSDE]] (Spatial Database Engine) is used as a [[Relational database management system|relational database]] connector for other Esri software to store and retrieve GIS data within a commercially available database: currently, it can be used with Oracle, [[PostgreSQL]], DB2, Informix and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It supports its native SDE binary data format, [[Oracle Spatial]], and ST_geometry.
[[ArcIMS]] (Internet Mapping Server) provides browser-based access to GIS. As of ArcGIS 10.1, ArcIMS has been deprecated in favor of ArcGIS Server, but there are still many instances of ArcIMS (10.0 and older) in production environments.
Other server-based products include Geoportal Server, ArcGIS Image Server and Tracking Server as well as several others.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}