>> - Some of the biggest advantages though, come from the corporate IT >> support that you come to rely on, e.g. regular backups, large disk >> capacity on fast SAN devices, secure access to data by authorised >> custodians, redundant databases for disaster recovery, point in time >> restoration of data etc.
>But there is no difference whether you back up files or a database. Well, actually there is a >difference. Backing up files is a lot easier, more robust and much much better scalable than cramming >everything into one or even several databases and trying to replicate that once it needs to be scaled >up. It is a little ironic that their Secret Sauce Du Jour, Map Caching, is just pre-rendering the images and storing them on the file system. ; / _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss