It seems to me that we could broaden the definition of 'a success story' to include not only success with *N*Hibernate but also with Hibernate in the Java world. Since on its face the 'resistence' to adopting NHibernate would seem to be much the same as with Hibernate, it seems that a success story with Hibernate would be nearly as valuable as a success story with NHibernate.
And for that, one need look no further than EBay, poster child for scalable and resilient systems. EBay has built their entire auction- handling infrastructure atop Hibernate for Java and you can't really get a whole lot bigger than the 3rd or 4th busiest URL on the internet in re: applicability to big systems. I routinely point critics who say 'ORM can't scale' or 'ORM can't be used in a high-performance context' to EBay as a success story for the implementation of an ORM in a high-volume, high-performance, high-scalabilty situation and once they discover that EBay uses HIbernate and that NHibernate offers the same capabilities in the .NET world, it tends to shut them up. There are still all the OSS licensing concerns for any company to deal with, but the EBay example tends to quiet the technical side of the critics' arguments when I deal with our clients. To be sure, EBay has spent significant time tweaking the heck out of their Hibernate implementation in order to ensure they maintain their desired performance metrics (and they are using things like Hibernate Shards for which there is no correllary -- that I am aware of -- in NHibernate), but their success does prove its entirely possible to do big systemds with Hibernate. For some detail on EBay's infrastructre (which is REALLY interesting to consider for anyone building even a smaller system but for which performance and scalability are still concerns, check out this episode of the always-valuable Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-09/episode-109-ebay039s-architecture-principles-randy-shoup -Steve B. On Oct 12, 9:07 am, "Tuna Toksöz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > As you may notice > here<http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers/browse_thread/thread/7e05fa561...>, > we want NH to be prefered over other alternatives and one way to show > this > is to have some names of firms used it successfuly. To say the truth, there > are _many_. But none of them show up when you do a search. > > In short, we need success stories to collect, if you have one, please don't > hesitate to send it here. > > Your contributions are all welcome. > > -- > Tuna Toksöz > > Typos included to enhance the readers attention! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
