[mapguide-users] Newbie questions concerning MGE2008 vs. MGOS

[Paul Spencer]

Hi,

aside from being installed in a different directory, the  
installations are largely identical.  MGE itself is identical, except  
that it uses a commerical projection library and comes with a couple  
of extra FDO providers that are not distributed as open source (there  
are open source alternatives, however).

You can install MGOS server and web extensions on the same machine.   
We have successfully run them on fairly modest windows XP machines.   
MG has a 'bundled' installation option that installs the Apache web  
server, this is convenient if you don't want to mess with IIS (but of  
course you can't use the .Net extensions for development then).

Cheers

Paul

On 23-Aug-07, at 9:19 PM, Violet559 wrote:

>
> Can someone please clarify the following for me? (I am new to  
> Mapguide open
> source)
>
> 1. If you have MGE 2008 installed on a server, how is it different  
> from
> having MGOS installed? Is there a difference between the  
> installation files
> you receive from Autodesk and the installation files you download  
> from the
> MGOS website? Could you have MGE and Open Source running on the  
> same server,
> or are they the same thing?
>
> 2. From the requirements page
> (http://mapguide.osgeo.org/system_requirements.html), it looks like  
> in order
> to have MGOS up and running you need to have MapGuide Server and  
> MapGuide
> Web Server Extensions installed on a server (ie: Microsoft IIS 6.0 on
> Windows Server 2003) and have Studio installed on a PC (or your  
> server). Can
> you have MGOS up and running without a server (for example: all  
> components
> installed on your home Window XP PC?)
>
> I understand that these questions will seem fairly obivious to most  
> readers.
> However, when you are first starting out, everything is not so clear!
>
> Thanks for your time
>
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