[mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future

[Puneet Kishor]

On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:40  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:

> i've been studing 'n' trying MapServer since the last 12 months...
>     i was searching for a good GPL+web+gis tool to avoid ArcIMS, cause
> it's too much expensive and so...i saw mapserver and this list.
>
> i've liked too much because:
> -it's free! it's GPL
> -it's simple to use(does anybody here has developed something with ESRI
> MapObjects with VisualBasic? :-(  )
> -it's fast
> -it's stable : it is at 3.x version... it's better than 0.2 or 0.5 ....
> -it's portable : u can use it under Linux or Windows with a little of
> modifications
> -...
>
> so, finally , my question is :
> -and what about the future? could mapserver loose its projects like
> Nautilus(EazeL)?
> and what i can do help keeping this project alive?

Believe in it, and join the party, dude. The more people use it, the  
more people discover bugs and problems with it, the more people spread 
the word, the more people demo nice sites built with it, the better it 
is gonna be for Mapserver.
>

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Puneet Kishor
pkishor at eidesis.org