On May 13, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Nelson Soto wrote:
Originally, I had suggested perhaps getting Parellels VM software and
just bringing a copy of Windows Server 2003 to the table, but my
performance almost seems better on my test machine... I'm not sure if
that will apply to concurrent users which is certainly an aspect of
the issue at hand, but the VM software only detects 1 core... not
good. We are not looking at VMWare or anything where the license will
exceed or approach the cost of a new server otherwise we will do so.
Or install Windows Server raw - you can install Windows on Mac Intel
hardware without virtualization (I think you have to use Boot Camp,
for drivers). I haven't heard of anyone doing this with an Xserve, so
I don't know how complete drivers are. Another problem with Parallels
is that it doesn't support 64bit OSs yet, so Windows Server would run
in 32bit mode.
Yes, I realize I can just set up Mapserver for OS X but, in my
oppinion, it is a very laborious task and I am foreseeing I will be
the one having to maintain this server and while I myself and
relatively comfortable maintaining OS X and its Unix skeleton, I want
to minimize the work I need to do to this server...
If you mean laborious for getting the software compiled and installed,
it's all done. I maintain OSX binaries for MapServer, Postgres/
PostGIS, PHP ([my] MapServer can't/shouldn't use the OSX PHP), and
various GIS library dependencies as frameworks.
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