I've been doing some research for a BOF at the upcoming TPC regarding web solutions and Perl. I've been asking people whom I know in the business to give me a reasonable estimate of what people are using for development of hosts in a web hosting environment. Below is an email I received from someone I regard as very astute and thought it might be of interest. e. *>I can't really give you much of a survey because there is so much stuff and *>many people are now using several products. I'm not sure the vendors can *>give you real numbers either because there are a lot of products out there *>that people have partially implemented. *>As an overview though: *>Cold Fusion hasn't caught on in the high-end. *>We haven't seen anyone want to use zope. *>Perl is widely used, but is not really gaining as a development platform *>other than being what it is. *> *>Here are the trends I see: *>There is great momentum towards modern servlet engines. These products *>perform quite well and the ability to use Enterprise Beans could *>theoretically decrease the development cycle. Don't know if that is true *>or not though. In this market we have several products that everyone seems *>to be gravitating to: *>IBM WebSphere(with Apache or netscape). This works better with apache *>depending on what version you are using. We had some problems with 3.0 and *>netscape. *>BEA Weblogic: it has an integrated web server. Highly regarded product. *>Apache/Jserv: Our testing showed that it ran faster than Netscape/Jrun. *>May no longer be the case if you use the servlet capabilites of the iplanet *>server. *>We are also seeing commercial sites implementing Apache/PHP. PHP is easy *>to implement so there is a short time-to-market.
