MS Foundation web presence question

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Question: how will this affect good old CGI mapserv and OGC MapServer
(those are the two major installs for my stakeholders)?

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Spencer
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November, 2005 09:36
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MS Foundation web presence question
> 
> 
> Charlton,
> 
> The MapServer Enterprise download is provided by Autodesk and was  
> previously known as Tux.  MSE comprises two parts:
> 
> * MSE server - this is a long running server process.  There is one  
> *site* server and zero or more support servers.  The server stores  
> configuration files (in XML!!!) and has all the logic to turn  
> requests into maps etc.
> 
> * MSE WebExtensions - this is the web part of the server and is  
> designed to be deployed in front of a corporate firewall etc.  It  
> exposes http access to the site server (and support servers) and has  
> a scripting interface in either PHP, Java or .NET ...
> 
> MapServer Studio is a desktop app that provides a way to configure  
> the MSE server via the WebExtensions tier.  I believe the 
> plan is for  
> Autodesk to keep this as a proprietary/commercial product because it  
> embeds AutoCAD binaries that are not being considered for 
> open source  
> release.  It is also bound to Windows only.
> 
> MapServer Studio will only work with MSE.
> 
> I believe there is an intention to develop a web-based open source  
> tool with similar capabilities as Studio (or at least the  
> capabilities necessary to configure the server with data and style  
> it), and probably also some command line tools for loading data into  
> the server and possibly moving MAP files to/from the MSE environment  
> (they have a different set of features for styling/labeling that  
> could make this tricky, but it should be possible to have a  
> rudimentary import/export).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 29-Nov-05, at 9:07 AM, Charlton Purvis wrote:
> 
> > Hi, folks:
> >
> > I have been paying attention to the spirited dialog re. yesterday's 
> > announcement.  But I may have missed something along the way, and I
> > have
> > just taken my first look at the .org site.  If the Foundation is  
> > still in
> > its early stages, who has been working to release what I see here?
> > http://www.mapserverfoundation.org/mapserver_enterprise/ 
> > download.html  And
> > for how long?
> >
> > I'm still downloading the whopping 125MB demo from here 
> > http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?
> > siteID=123112&id=6153839.  Long
> > gone are small installs.  That site refers to that d/l as AutodeskR 
> > MapServer Studio - Preview, and it's terribly confusing how that
> > relates to
> > what we're calling Cheetah or Enterprise.  That is, if it is  
> > supposed to
> > relate at all.
> >
> > And not to belabor the point, the .org website appears to leave
> > little doubt
> > that there are 2 separate beasts (Cheetah and Enterprise) that  
> > already have
> > names.
> >
> > Charlton
> 
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