> From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > As Tomcat is OpenSource (and not proprietary) and can be > installed on any OS (vs just 1) I dont undertand > What is causing the number of Tomcat users to attenuate over time?
Ancient history, I know, but I'll respond anyway. A Model T Ford is a perfectly good car. However, if Ford don't innovate and other car manufacturers do, people buying new cars will switch away from Ford to vehicles that are cheaper, faster, have lower fuel costs or innovations like a roof. Tomcat and JSP is a perfectly good model for web applications. However, if the Java community and the Tomcat developers don't innovate and other communities do (for example the PHP community and Microsoft), people deploying new applications will switch away from Tomcat and JSP to systems that are cheaper, faster to develop, have lower hosting/running costs or innovations like per-webapp memory and CPU throttling. The issue is not that Tomcat is bad in absolute terms, it's simply that other communities are out-innovating it so it's becoming a (perceived) poorer *relative* choice. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]