Sorry Jim,
I was lead astray by the initial thread which asked about ejbcontainer
comparisons and not what people are using. I have rules in my email client
which provide me with a good picture of the usage of specific appservers on
this ejb-interest list. The rules place copies of emails received into
different bins based on keywords i.e. products. Just looking at the number
binned gives me a good indicator of usage. Of course this figure is an
estimate just like yours but they seem to correlate well at the moment. For
myself I would like to have seen one qualification to your survey -
commercial usage.
Anyway thanks for introducing me to zaplets; read about them never visited.
-william
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Poll: Which EJB container do you use
Sometimes I think that some of you are more uptight than Martha Stewart on
dirty sheets.
I'll leave it to those great unbiased pillars of opinion, Giga, Zona,
Gartner, ZDNet, etc. to post there stats on what app servers are leading by
market share. If you believe that these vendor companies don't court these
analysts like a lobbyist on a US congressman, then you are blind.
This isn't a poll to determine which app server is *better*, William. It is
a very informal question that I want to ask all of my EJB friends. What EJB
Container are you *using* today? Very simple.
Tim, sorry I missed a few obvious choices in the poll. Respondents seem to
be quite intelligent and are successfully writing in their appservers as you
noticed. As the number of respondents increase, I'm sure the numbers will
converge to a more interesting and accurate picture. Of course, there is
room for abuse. Of course, I don't care. I find the results so far to be
very useful in my own way.
I'm getting a pretty interesting picture of which ejb containers people are
using today. Some surprises that I see so far are:
1. Weblogic has an enormous market share. Much more than I would've thought.
The distance between #1 and #2 is huge.
2. Gemstone/J is almost non-existant. Very surprised.
3. OrionServer has a very strong presence and Pramati is not far behind.
More so than the big commercial powerhouses of Inprise and IBM which are
virtual tied.
Disclaimer: These conclusions could be drastically wrong. I expect that
anyone with strong vendor ties or employed by any of these companies that
didn't do quite so well will be quick to tell you that. Use your own mind
and draw your own conclusions.
jim
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