> What I'd like to know is why are companies using $50,000
> application servers
> when other servers exist that are low cost or no cost, that
> essentially do
> the same job.
> I've used Orion and JBoss and they seem to run as reliabily as other
> expensive servers, although they can be more difficult to run
> initially.
> Obviously things like clustering abilities are not there
> (yet) but 90% of
> applications don't need them anyway.
> So tell me, industry people, why do you use your expensive
> app servers???
> I await your responses!!!
> Thanks,
> Oisin
>
1. Managers make these decisions, not developers. Managers are more
susceptible to marketing.
2. If you plan to sell your application, you will sell it to managers [not
developers], who will insist that you use a well marketed name.
Kind of a vicious circle
- Avi
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