While I think it's fair to say a majority of Django users tend to run Mac or Linux based systems, I don't think it's fair to conclude a Django setup is not well supported on Windows. I've got a few clients with Windows only IT departments who are running Django (through IIS even) with no problems at all. GeoDjango also is a straightforward install on Windows (and using the one-click style Windows GeoDjango installer it's probably even easier than installing on Mac/Linux). Overall, Windows vs Linux is not that major reason I would choose a .NET setup over GeoDjango -- I'd look instead at things like the community support (eg other developers you can get tips from, or just other developers to pull into the project) for each in the niche product you're putting together; which language you prefer coding in; which MVC architecture you prefer building your webapps in, etc.
-Josh On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Glen Rhea <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > 501.682.6077 Fax > [email protected] 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 > >-------------- next part -------------- > >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > >URL: < > http://geowanking.org/pipermail/geowanking_geowanking.org/attachments/20090910/a23764f0/attachment-0001.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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