Anyone compared SharpMap with MapServer. What are the major difference? Thanks

[P Kishor]

On 4/4/07, Sun, Xijiang <XIJIANG.SUN at saic.com> wrote:
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> Dear folks,
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>  I am testing MapServer, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server.   When I tried to search
> "Tile Caching", I found another Open Source GIS--  SharpMap.
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>  Does any one compared the difference, like advantage/disadvantage between
> these two?  or can you point to articles about the comparison?
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SharpMap runs only on Windows and requires knowledge of .NET.
MapServer runs on Windows as well as any/all Unix and Unix-like
operating systems and works with a variety of languages.


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Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/
Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/education/
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