Subject changed... sorry Mark... :) Tom Duerbusch wrote:
However, are you saying that if we were only running HATS and the part of WebSphere that comes with HATS, that I need no knowledge, what-so-ever of Websphere to make it run fine in a production environment?
Correct. Any support of the Websphere component that makes up HATS is done by the support center, not the customer (unless the support center directs the customer to do some Websphere thing on their behalf).
The gist(s) of my concerns are: 1. We end up having to support multiple Java platforms. 2. With multiple platforms, come the need to support, installation, maintenance, performance, debugging of multiple platforms. 3. With each platform comes the need (IMHO) of one or more test platforms. 4. And with each flavor of Java platform, we have some licensing fees (product, support, etc) on a per engine basis. In this case, licensing multiple products, that apparently do the same thing, on the same single engine, when there is no "application driven" reason to do so.
Welcome to multi-cultural computing... :) I don't have an easy answer. What you need to acquire and support is a business decision and needs to be evaluated based on the needs of the enterprise.
Am I right about this... That the full blown Websphere, can do: 1. HATS
It is entirely possible that HATS will ONLY be supported with Websphere that is delivered with HATS. Any other Websphere packages that are installed and used with HATS (even if they are the same level) will not provide a supported environment.
2. Any in-house developed application that uses Oracle 10g.
In as much as your Websphere applications need to use the Oracle database, sure.
3. Any thing that we would have used Jboss for. A second question, other than a cost issue, is there any thing you would use Jboss for that wouldn't work just as well on Websphere?
I can't answer those. I would expect that there are things that can be done in Websphere that can not be done in JBoss and vice-versa. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2008 - Chattanooga - April 18-22, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
