-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 August 2004 21:28, Eric Lenio wrote: > the reason I'm asking is because the client is really more attuned to the > java hype/buzzwords that exists out there. having done just a smattering > of java, I am somewhat at a loss as to tell them exactly why a perl > solution is better. this client does already have some investment in java, > but no perl, so it is probably more palatable to management to continue to > invest in java. > > the client is also quite concerned with scalability, but I am confident > that mod_perl will scale extremely well.
A few years ago I was in a similar situation. I was working for a big company (~500.000 employees) and someone from the upper management had 'decided' that java was the best tool for all purposes. Then some department had startet a new project and of cource tried to implement it in java using jsp. After 6 weeks of more or less resultless effort the lower management decided to try a competing approach. To my luck the manager had had some positive experience with perl. He hired me and a fellow programmer gave us 2 weeks time to create something to show. After that time the java project was canceled and after another 2 weeks we had created a working system where all the basic requirements were implemented. As for scalability I am running mod_perl-enhanced apaches on a web server farm consisting of 5 machines making 500.000 visits, 2.000.000 page impressions or 18.000.000 hits a day. Every request on these machines is touched by mod_perl. And the system would run without noticable performance degradation even with only 3 of the machines running. Torsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBGTCrwicyCTir8T4RAqblAJ49mhPFKcXSlVdOxhmuqDafhac4lACeJ5Qw xGBcPUBgpzG6Hxn3JRYdULI= =5hEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
