An unbiased overview of MapServer

The latest version of MapServer 5.20 released on July 16th. And at the same time, Mr. Pual Ramey created a slides to show what is MapServer and told MapSever from the other kinds of Map Server, such as GeoServer, ArcIMS, MapGuide and etc.

Basically, Paul thought that MapServer is much more powerful than the others. MapServer is Strong as ox, Fast as a cheetah, and the most important, Paul thinks that the MapServer is just a engine which mainly focus on creating maps, but the GeoServer, ArcIMS and GeoServer are sorts of integrated Map Server systems, which combines the GUI, the Design software and so on. If anyone wants to see this slides, just find them on Mr. Paul’s website.

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