[mapserver-users] Re: FW: [Manifold] Map Server Docs

[Jim Butcher]

Well stated Mr. Morissette !

At 02:55 PM 9/14/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Dimitri,
>
>I agree with some of your points, but I strongly disagree on the "low
>performance and numerous security holes"... you also forgot to mention
>(in the pluses) reliability/stability and connectivity with other
>systems via protocols such as OGC WMS (client and server), and
>on-the-fly access to various data sources such as SDE, PostGIS, 20
>raster formats and half a dozen vector formats.
>
>I'm actually glad to hear that you have been able to combine easy
>configuration and application development, flexibility, high performance
>and affordable price into a single product... it's a huge step in the
>right direction since none of the current map server offering could do
>*all* of that until now AFAIK... not even MapServer which I have to
>admit requires some skills and some time before you can take full
>advantage of all its features.   This is not sarcasm... if what you
>pretend is true then I'm impressed!  But I won't believe until I see
>it...
>
>Does your note imply that Manifold IMS will deliver better performance
>(and stability) than MapServer?  Other than the mythic belief that CGI
>is slow, MapServer is actually the fastest fully featured web map server
>I've seen until now... yes CGI overhead exists but it is minimal
>compared to the time to render maps based on hundreds of Megabytes or
>even Gigabytes of data (which MapServer can accomodate amazingly well
>thanks to its high performance internal architecture!).
>
>Anyway, I'm looking forward to see a Manifold-based website that can
>beat Jean-Francois Doyon's Election application which served 80,000 maps
>from a single Linux box on elections day last fall while sites based on
>other webmapping servers all went down.  There is no cache trick here...
>we're talking about real maps drawn and served.  Combine that with a
>pool of servers with load balancing and the possibilities are unlimited
>(and the price hard to beat!).
>
>80,000 maps per day on a single server is acceptable performance to
>me... if Manifold IMS beats that then I might even consider digging out
>our old Manifold license and upgrading to see it by myself.
>
>Best Regards,
>--
>------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
>------------------------------------------------------------
>   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
>       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.

James H. Butcher
GIS/Plans Manager
Town of Collierville

phone: 901-853-3271
fax: 901-853-5858
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