[mapserver-users] professional MapServer services list? / ArcIMS-MapServer choice

[Dave McIlhagga]

John,

In fact, there are numerous examples that if anything may indicate the 
contrary.  Ourselves, we have been involved with a project that can 
comfortably generate over 100,000 map draws a day.  There was also an 
example a couple of years ago covering the Canadian Federal election 
where a MapServer based application was the only one able to handle the 
enormous traffic that resulted.

I believe there are a few other groups using MapServer on this list who 
have also indicated that they have been using it for high volumes.

I'm not sure if anyone has done a thorough comparison of ArcIMS with 
Oracle vs. MapServer with either tuned flat files, connection to Oracle 
Spatial, SDE or PostGIS, but I suspect that MapServer would come out on 
top hands down.

Now that this has been brought up - has anyone done any kind of 
benchmarking like this?  I'd love to have that at my disposal in the 
ongoing argument to potential clients for using MapServer.

Dave



John Zastrow wrote:
> Mark and List,
> 
> I'm a similar boat, except that it's my own group that I'd be 'selling'
> Mapserver to. It's my impression that for small to moderate sized projects,
> mapserver does just fine. But moderate to semi-large projects (size being user
> load and data load) one needs to use a commercial map server (ArcIMS on
> Oracle). 
> 
> Has anyone done a feature matrix of the various mapsevers out there? I just
> started lurking on this list. Standard apologies if this has been covered
> already. I'd be interested to see Mark's compilation and information from folks
> who have comparative information.
> 
> 
> --- Mark Phillips <mbp at geomtech.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi List,
>>
>>I'm interested in compiling a list of companies and individuals who
>>provide MapServer support and development services.  If you are such a
>>company or individual, could you drop me a note?
> 
> 
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