iPlanet are what's left of Netscape Corporation's server products group,
after they were eaten by the unholy alliance of Sun and AOL. They had an
application server (Netscape App Server, nee Kiva plus LiveWire) which
used a mysterious combination of C++ and JavaScript to create
"AppLogic(tm)". It was an OK product, if a little "quirky" but it
rapidly fell out of favor (at least at the consulting shop I was working
at at the time) when WebLogic matured, since that was a lot more
reliable and standards-compliant (J2EE). And they liked Cold Fusion too,
because it was cheap and let people with minimal experience develop
database-backed web sites, but I've never thought of Cold Fusion as
anything more than a toy.
Having said that, I've used Oracle Application Server versions 2 to 4.
Version 2 was pretty good relative to what else was available in the
market, but 3 and 4 really slipped behind unless you were 100% Oracle,
for example deploying Forms and Reports on the web. If you wanted a
general-purpose app server for, say, a JSP based web site, you would be
better off with WebLogic or Sapphire or something. OAS 4 on NT was
dreadful, it really was the nail in the coffin as far as I was
concerned, which is odd because Oracle RDBMS on NT is very good, so it's
not as if Oracle don't know what they're doing on that platform.
My current favorite, for the last year or so, is ATG Dynamo. This app
server is fast, powerful, easy to use and very reliable. But it should
be, for what you pay for it!
Cheers,
g
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:12 PM
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Related to this, I seem to recall reading something the
other day that led me to believe that iPlanet is somewhat in
competition with Oracle's app server product. Does anyone
know if this is true?
Best regards,
Jonathan Gennick
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 906.387.1698
http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com *
http://MetalDrums.org
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