MapServer vs. Deegree

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 8/12/05, Nuttall Edward W <EWNUTTALL at qinetiq.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason why I should choose MapServer over Deegree? It seems to
> based on legacy technologies (C, CGI) yet most of the recent GIS development
> books around seem to use it in their examples?

Edward, 

Well, if you don't want to get trapped using "legacy technologies" like
C and CGI you might want to avoid MapServer.  I don't know Deegree
too well, but my vague understanding is that it and the geotools map
server(s) have somewhat restricted sets of input formats supported, and
also perhaps not great scalability in raster performance.   If you are
interested
in scripting in Python, PHP or Perl I think you will find MapServer more 
readily used.  Lastly MapServer has a larger and more active user community
which can be important in some cases. 

That said, I am sure Deegree has lots of pluses too, and my understanding
is that it has quite good standards compliance. 

You will really need to evaluate in terms of your particular needs.  I am
not aware of much "side by side" performance comparison of Deegree
and MapServer.  What might make sense is to provide a summary of what
you want to accomplish and mapserver users could give a sense if it is
practical with MapServer. 

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