ADSK and the MapServer Foundation - tying the threads together

[Gary Lang]

Ethan,

 

When we are done with MSE, and we said we are not done, it will have a
Java layer, a .NET layer, and a PHP layer (the default). I'm sorry if we
confused you.

 

Cheetah was not our idea; I was told this had been kicking around for a
while - like 2 or 3 years.

 

Regards,

 

Gary

 

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From: Ethan Alpert [mailto:ealpert at digitalglobe.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:09 PM
To: Gary Lang; MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ADSK and the MapServer Foundation -
tying the threads together

 

 

You're missing my point...MSE is not Mapserver and dosn't have the
capabilities of Mapserver and therefore should not be called Mapserver
Enterprise. The name Mapserver Enterprise to me initially implied you
had written a j2ee layer for Mapserver. Clearly this is not the case and
I question why have your product called Mapserver when they are apples
and oranges. And why force the *real* Mapserver to be called "Mapserver
Cheetah"? This makes no sense and wil completely confuse and dialute the
Mapserver brand.

 

-e

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Gary Lang [mailto:gary.lang at autodesk.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:39 PM
	To: Ethan Alpert; MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
	Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ADSK and the MapServer
Foundation - tying the threads together

	The "enterprise" moniker idea came from a MS person, but we sell
to enterprise customers today with even less OGC support than we have in
MSE. Since we sell to them today a product with less of these features
it didn't seem too presumptuous.

	 

	It would be interesting to see a gap analysis. My boss is on the
OGC board, and they seem happy with our progress in this area.

	 

	In the rush to do all this by our AU event here in Orlando, many
shortcuts were taken, including with documentation. Sorry about that.
The first official release of the open source code will take place in
January, and it should be better by then.

	 

	Gary 

	 

	
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	From: Ethan Alpert [mailto:ealpert at digitalglobe.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:33 PM
	To: Gary Lang; MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
	Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ADSK and the MapServer
Foundation - tying the threads together

	I'm curious why you want to call your product Mapserver
Enterprise when it clearly doesn't have near the level of functionality
that the *real* Mapserver has? Could you answer this please? No OGC
support, for example, which is core to other "Enterprise" mapping
applications. I'm not finding adaquate documentation of features online
but MSE doesn't look like it provides much of the functionality commonly
associated with the Mapserver brand.

	 

	-e

		-----Original Message-----
		From: UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Lang
		Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:13 PM
		To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
		Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ADSK and the MapServer
Foundation - tying the threads together

		Folks,

		 

		I want to answer questions and continue to try to learn
what the concerns are. I thought I'd sit down and write a longer mail
about 

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