> Well, I'm no marketer, I don't even use an app server though
> my employer makes
> one but if you think that servers that cost money are of no
> use, then you've
> never had to reach tech support at 2 AM. Who's home at
> "Orion" if you have a
> server problem on Saturday afternoon on Labor Day weekend?
> I'd never, if it
> were up to me, use an open-source, freeware app server if
> reliability and
> vailability mattered to me.
>
At 2 am there's zero chance you'll get to a developer at a large company,
but some slight chance you'll get one at a small company or with open
source. And with open source you can be your own support.
At large vendors, developers are well "protected" by several layers of
support engineers which rarely have any clue as to what's going on. You may
get some help from developers by posting on the vendor's newsgroup, which
the developers may sample on some random difference, but then how does that
differ to an open source app?
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