Photo Server Software?

[David Kramer]

jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote, On 09/12/2008 10:51 AM:

> I've worked with gallery on a project for the Umass boston bio dept.
> Its a powerful cms with a lot of great media features. The only
> drawback is its use of folders for organization. Works great for a
> small to moderate sized sites but it starts to choke when you get
> into multiple thousands of albums/folders because of its relyance on
> folder structure rather than the db for organization.
> 
> Just a heads up and not much to worry about for most sites,because it
> is a great cms for photo sharing and management just not on a large
> scale.

My guess is this:
Gallery lets multiple people host their pictures in photo albums, and
there's also multiple ways of getting photos into those photo albums.  I
think the folders are separate to avoid file permissions problems.