MapServer - ArcSDE feedback

[Paul Ramsey]

   The main advantage of ArcSDE is that you can directly edit your data
with ArcMap. There are also some other good desktop-integrated features
like versioning and topology that work well with ArcMap.
   Everything else is disadvantages. Performance, flexibility, price,
standards compliance: PostGIS wins on them all.

Paul

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

> all the info about Mapserver and SDE is on the Wiki:
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapServerSDE
>
> I'll let others (who are more capable) comment on the PostGIS-ArcSDE
> comparison .... the only thing I know is that ArcSDE has a deadly
> connection overhead so you should use Mapserver in FastCGI mode for that
> to get an acceptable performance.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>the company for wich I work is taking into account to buy an ArcSDE
>>license.
>>Is there someone which can give me some feedback (or links to) about
>>connection of MapServer with ArcSDE ?
>>I would like to know problems and advantages especially compared with
>>having data in PostGIS.
>>
>>I think this could be usefull also for other people ...
>>
>>Thanks
>>    Piero
>>