[AtlanticCanada] "I need a map..."

[Jeff McKenna]

Bernie,

The committed development teams for this year's WMS benchmarking
exercise are:

   Cadcorp
   Constellation-SDI
   Erdas Appolo
   GeoServer
   MapGuide Open
   Mapnik
   MapServer
   Oracle MapViewer
   QGIS mapserver

Yes it was unfortunate that groups pulled out last year, but what 
happens is that teams commit, and then time passes and when it comes 
near the deadline they realize that they need more resources, but are 
unable to move resources from normal tasks to this exercise.  It may 
also occur at this year's event.

I did speak with the ESRI ArcServer team lead this year again, but they 
were unable to allocate necessary resources for our 2010 exercise; ESRI 
is fact is very involved in the FOSS4G event, through sponsorship, 
booth, presenters, and I know that they will one day again participate 
in the benchmarking exercise.

Just for the record, here are some relevant links:

2010 exercise home: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010
2010 email list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking
2009 results presentation: 
http://www.slideshare.net/gatewaygeomatics.com/wms-performance-shootout

-jeff

PS. yes I know all too well the importance of configuration and its 
impact on performance for mapping servers.  I would be more than willing 
to talk to your group about this someday, and show them the speed of 
MapServer :)

Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> 	Who has committed to compete in the WMS benchmarking this year?  Has ESRI or ERDAS decided to join Mapserver and GeoServer?  I found it very interesting that ESRI pulled out of the benchmark at FOSS4G 2009 with only about one week to spare.  IMHO ESRI should have shown up for the benchmark and taken their lumps and used it as encouragement to improve their WMS performance.  I am currently going through a process to optimize our ESRI map documents and map services to see if we can get the ESRI ArcGIS Server WMS performance up to an acceptable level.  I must add that some of the reason for the poor WMS performance that we are experiencing with ArcGIS server is due to the poor configuration of our map documents (our own fault).
> 
> Regards,
> Bernie.
> 
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-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/