Michael, Thanks for the feedback. I have a few questions/comments inline.
On Jan 11, 2008 5:12 AM, Michael Arnoldus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Jan 10, 2008, at 17:14 , Robert Greig wrote: > > > > The only reason for the deviation from the AMQP spec was that the > > official 0-8 spec had limitations that meant we could not achieve full > > JMS compliance without some changes. We had other users for whom full > > JMS compliance was critical. > > And I can see why that would make sense from a java perspective. > However that actively discouraged us in trying out QPID as a broker. > Is this the only issue that prevented you guys from using Qpid? > > > > > > >> Also - interesting discussion about performance - I'd be interested > >> in > >> better and less biased comparisons, while I'm still aware that msg/ > >> sec > >> and latency is not the only interesting kind of performance in a > >> product like this. > > > > What are your performance requirements? What client implementations do > > you need? Are you interested in road testing Qpid? Our recent M2 > > release incorporates a huge number of changes and improvements. > > Currently my primary performance requirements are stability, ease of > installation and use, scalability and support. If you win in those > areas, I really don't care if I need to buy machines with 4 times as > many cores to achieve the same performance. I know you are pressed for time, but if you can elaborate a bit more on these areas it will help us improve. What are your thoughts on ease of installation and use? Dare I ask you about documentation? Also some feedback on scalability and stability would help us a lot. > If I have scalability, > hardware is VERY cheap!!! Using my developers time on stuff that > doesn't work, are difficult to use or to build are far more expensive. > > Thanks for your offer on road testing, which I have to decline. We're > fairly busy at the moment, and Rabbit actually works for us right now. > However it is very important for me in my choice of AMQP that several > implementations do exist - and I do find QPID interesting and will > definitely try it out in the future. > > Michael > > -- Regards, Rajith Attapattu Red Hat blog: http://rajith.2rlabs.com/
