[Geowanking] ...but you can do that with esri OR ...but esri does that better? OR ...but only esri does that?

[zach cruise]

...that retort comes up every freaking time i propose a cheaper
solution that is not esri, mostly from people who do not know that gis
exists outside esri. so what are some specific gis tasks you can *not*
do with esri with out significant overhead? i need a bigger list
across the spectrum: desktop, database, web etc, hence this list.