At 8:19 AM -0800 3/11/99, Sebastian Frey wrote:
> Alex Horovitz wrote:
>
>> Unless of course you want to talk about performance of these
>> products compared
>> to WO, then please step right up! After all, we toast them!
>
> Yes, let's talk about this. I for one am interested in a performance
> comparison of WebObjects vs. WebSphere. On February 17, Alex sent out a
> nice PDF that had a chart showing WebObjects out-performing the competition.
> However, not all of the competition was on the chart - for instance,
> WebSphere. WebSphere, I know, claims to be very fast, too. Does anyone know
> of a more complete, recent study, than the one by SQLi, which Alex sent out?
> One that includes, say, WebObjects, NetDynamics, and Oracle Application
> Server? The SQLi report says it tested Oracle Application Server 4.0, but
> it didn't put a line for it on the "Benchmark Results (extreme workload)"
> chart that I can see.
>
> My interest in this is not purely academic, by the way. I'm working for a
> company that's about to take a good hard look at the App servers out there,
> and performance and scalability are going to be the most important metrics,
> followed closely by quality of frameworks and ease of development.
My personal App server benchmark.
Go to a site of a company "eating their own dogfood".
Apple: Using WebObjects: Fast
Microsoft: Using ASP: Atrociously Slow Pages
Oracle: Slow
Its cheap, its easy, and if a company can't make a site run fast
using their own technology, what chance do you have?
Pierce
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