MS Foundation web presence question

[Dean Gadoury]

Hi Charlton,

The MapServer Enterprise release you are refering to was developed by 
Autodesk. I don't know how long it was in the works, but clearly a while 
because it is represents a significant development effort. That 
shouldn't be confused with the formation of the Foundation though. That 
development was done independently and the code has been contributed to 
the community.

The 125MB demo you refer to is the authoring environment for MapServer 
Enterprise. It is definitely related to MapServer Enterprise, but not 
related to the MapServer (Cheetah) we are familiar with. Studio is 
necessary in order to write MSE 'mapfiles' and it allows you to create 
publishable applications as well.

I hope this clears things up a bit.

Dean

Charlton Purvis wrote:
> Hi, folks:
> 
> I have been paying attention to the spirited dialog re. yesterday's
> announcement.  But I may have missed something along the way, and I have
> just taken my first look at the .org site.  If the Foundation is still in
> its early stages, who has been working to release what I see here?
> http://www.mapserverfoundation.org/mapserver_enterprise/download.html  And
> for how long?
> 
> I'm still downloading the whopping 125MB demo from here
> http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=6153839.  Long
> gone are small installs.  That site refers to that d/l as AutodeskR
> MapServer Studio - Preview, and it's terribly confusing how that relates to
> what we're calling Cheetah or Enterprise.  That is, if it is supposed to
> relate at all.
> 
> And not to belabor the point, the .org website appears to leave little doubt
> that there are 2 separate beasts (Cheetah and Enterprise) that already have
> names.
> 
> Charlton
>