Sigh, I have been saying this for well over a year now...
<http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5801&cid=1031241>
Next I need to just convince people that JSP sucks and I'm sure that Gartner
will eventually write an article about it.
:-)
-jon
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010822S0001
Those damn expensive EJB servers!
$1B Wasted On High-End Servers, Gartner Says
Companies wasted more than $1 billion between 1998 and 2000 on high-end
Java application servers that provide far more capabilities than are
needed on most Web sites, says research firm Gartner. And, if the trend
continues, Gartner estimates that companies could throw away another $2
billion from 2001 to 2003.
Confusion over the appropriate use of the software needed to power Web
applications has led many companies to bypass low-end application
servers that meet most requirements and cost 10 times less than the
high-end products, Gartner says. In the last three years, the cheaper
models were sufficient for 80% of the projects in a typical midsize
company, yet 60% of the deployments were high-end.
Most business Web-site applications are focused on delivering content to
the user and are therefore best run on low-end products that support
servlets and Java Server Pages, technology best suited for those kinds
of applications. Examples of such application servers include Enhydra,
an open-source product; iPlanet Web Server from the Sun Microsystems/AOL
Time Warner alliance; WebLogic Express from BEA Systems; and WebSphere
Standard Edition from IBM.
High-end application servers are intended for large transaction volume
and, therefore, offer more advanced capabilities, such as load
balancing, fault tolerance, transaction management, and system
management. In addition, the expensive software typically supports the
Enterprise JavaBean component model and Java messaging architecture,
which are important for reusing application business logic across
various business processes and clients. Businesses should use a high-end
server handling transactions, back-end integration, and high volume in
conjunction with low-end products running less complicated applications.
"People need to take control and be responsible for their (computer)
architecture and the choices they make," says Gartner analyst David
Smith. "They need to understand that while they may have the requirement
to have the capability of EJB for one aspect, that doesn't mean that all
the different tiers in their system have to have the high-end
application server. They can use the low-end ones to do JSPs, servlets
and make calls to the EJB on the high-end one."
-- Antone Gonsalves <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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