Id say the article showed Solaris as the best platform for development and
distribution. With Linux and TowerJ or IBM OS/2 a good second. Nothing in that
article showed NT as having any advantage at all.
Be that as it may it does clearly show Solaris is the premier high volume server
with IBM and NT way behind.
As a developer who cares what platform you develop on, Like you really run 2100
connection in the development environment. Also don't be too quick to judge, all
the servers tested were Intel based. That in its self makes the entire report
less than useful when considering the concepts of salability. Again it is far
easier to migrate from Intel with Solaris and Linux to a more powerful UNIX based
platform than NT.
Ron Burton
Serge Knystautas wrote:
> I hate Microsoft as much as the next self-respecting developer, but as a
> Java developer, Sun has unfortunately made NT the best Java platform
> (since this is the JServ mailing list). Check out the latest Volano JVM
> stress tests (I think this has already been mentioned on this list, but
> you should review the results).
> http://www.javaworld.com/jw-03-1999/jw-03-volanomark.html?022399txt
>
> Highlights include several JVMs on NT able to support up to 2100
> simultaneous connections without choking, but Linux caps at 250
> (roughly) because of file system sharing. Nevermind that the JITs on
> Linux are less developed and stress-tests, so the performance is better
> on NT. Better performance and scalability on NT. Never thought I'd say
> that. That's the whole reason we're migrating so many other services
> here to Linux (DNS, mail, dhcp, etc...).
>
> Sorry, but like I said, I'm stuck with Windows because of Java...
>
> Serge Knystautas
> Loki Technologies
> http://www.lokitech.com
>
> Ron Burton wrote:
> >
> > "Marc A. Saegesser" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > There may be problems making CGI and servlet output unbuffered, that's why
> > > I posted. If unbuffered CGI and servlets won't work then the only choice I
> > > have left is to switch to a different web server for the Win32 platform.
> >
> > There is always the other alternative. :-)
> >
> > Sorry couldn't resist the temptation on this.
> >
> > Why would anyone use NT as the server anyway? Its expensive, slow and
> > comparably unreliable.
> >
> > If there is some service that requires NT, use NT for that. However, the
> > web server could run on any platform and still communicate with the service.
> >
> > I know this is not really helping allot, but often we tend to start down a
> > single path convinced its the only one. Only to realize far to late we are on
> > the wrong path.
> >
> > Ron Burton
> >
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