On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, > Without wanting to sound "anti M$" I do think that this type of comparison > is always weighted towards the result that the "constructor" desires. > > My daughter is a DB Architect and her boyfriend a "dev" programmer working > under contract for SKY TV in Scotland. They are implementing a new account > and CRM portal for SKY and have been involved in the choice of portal > hardware/software i.e Linux, Windows, Websphere, IIS etc etc. > > In a moment of weakness during their visit before Christmas we got into a > really "geek" talk/discussion about the final choices for the project. > Bearing in mind that personally I only get involved with desktop apps in > both VFP and .NET, lots of the techie bits left me for cold but their > conclusion was that the Websphere platform on Linux comfortably out > performed the Microsoft equivalent by a factor of 2:1 in terms of TPS volume > on all their tests. Hence their choice of Websphere. > > The boyfriend is a lead developer, Microsoft fan, and really knows his stuff > so I do take his comments as being a realistic comparison of the two > architectures. In view of the fact that he has over 200 devs working under > him and some 10 years of portal development experience I guess his > credentials are second to none - he doesn't get paid nearly $1500 per day > for being a "duffer" by anyone. > > I guess as a summary, it goes to show the old axiom "there are lies, damned > lies and statistics" can be used in most environments. > > Dave Crozier -------------------------------------
I like to talk to people with other experiences to see what their card deck will hold. I feel very comfortable with my current approach and when I read this graph there could be lots of benefits if I changed my initial delivery. Long ago and versions earlier I had the experience/nightmare of working with Web Sphere. I know it has changed a lot since then but in that same time frame .Net came into the world and I felt much more comfortable in that environment. Back then I didn't like data objects but loved data sets/tables/rows. I bet if I revisited it I'd find it a lot better just because of a very different common sense that I have today. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
