[Geowanking] Django vs. .NET

[Roger Bedell]

PostGIS (PostGres with geographic extensions) works beautifully on Win 
servers. I don't know about clusters, but in general is very nice. Also 
GeoServer works very well on Win servers. We just finished a geographic 
warehouse website built with .NET and OpenLayers to access a 
GeoServer/GeoNetwork/PostGIS backend, no real surprises, and am extremely 
happy with GeoServer/PostGIS especially. I think Oracle is an unfair 
comparison.

Roger



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From: "Glen Rhea" <Glen.Rhea at arkansas.gov>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:09 PM
To: <geowanking at geowanking.org>
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Django vs. .NET

> I recently re-architected our whole environment and I was pretty much 
> given free rein on what the new system would be like. We are a Windows 
> shop and I considered GeoDjango/Postgres (I use them both on FreeBSD at 
> home) but I felt that I would run into the same issues that I have had 
> with Oracle. The software simply isn't designed to run on Windows and even 
> though you can make it work doesn't mean it will work well or be easy to 
> maintain. Case in point, try to setup Oracle in a MS Cluster, it worked 
> eventually but it was ugly at best...
>
> Glen Rhea - GeoStor Administrator
> Arkansas Geographic Information Office - Putting Arkansas on the Map
> 1 Capitol Mall
> 2nd Floor 2B 900
> Little Rock, AR 72201
> 501.683.2719  Tel
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> glen.rhea at arkansas.gov  Email
> http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov  Web
>
>>On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Paul Palubinski wrote:
>>
>>Hey folks,
>>
>>I'm pretty new to the geowanking community and have become well aware of 
>>the
>>fact that there are many savvy web developers here with a penchant for all
>>things geo. Currently, I am exclusively using ASP.NET (and SQL Server) for
>>web development, but I have experience developing with PHP/MySQL.  I was
>>introduced to the GeoDjango framework by this listserv and was wondering 
>>if
>>anyone who has prior experience with ASP.NET could explain some of the
>>benefits of going the Python/Django route for web development, and more
>>specifically, using GeoDjango and what some of the major differences are
>>from developing in ASP.NET?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Paul Palubinski
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