Mmmm ...
ZOPE and other PD ones will more than often do the job. What miffs me
about many commercial app server products is the licensing schemes of
the vendors. You pays for a server license (in the $50000 range) and
then you pays for user licenses (at $100-250 per user). It quickly
gets out of hand.
Commercial app server licenses that are relatively cheap (and only
based on servers installed on rather than users) like Cold Fusion and
WebObjects for example are much better value than some of the others.
And don't talk to me about specialised app servers for OLAP and other
uses ... those copies cost a mint to to install and license, and you
end up paying through the bloody nose.
Still your average IT department will often say 'We need WebSphere
because we use DB2" or whatever depending on what mainframe database
product they use without realising that most app servers are database
independent, and most will do the job through generic open standard
API's and IDE's. (Probably cos they have never used an open standard
in their lives.)
Regards,
At 9:55 AM +1000 25/8/01, James Morris wrote:
>From http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010822S0001
>
> $1B Wasted On High-End Servers, Gartner Says
>
> Companies wasted more than $1 billion between 1998 and
> 2000 on high-end Java application servers that provide far
> more capabilities than are needed on most Web sites, says
> research firm Gartner. And, if the trend continues, Gartner
> estimates that companies could throw away another $2 billion
> from 2001 to 2003.
>
> Confusion over the appropriate use of the software needed to
> power Web applications has led many companies to bypass
> low-end application servers that meet most requirements and
> cost 10 times less than the high-end products, Gartner says.
> In the last three years, the cheaper models were sufficient for
> 80% of the projects in a typical midsize company, yet 60% of
> the deployments were high-end.
>
> [ snip ]
>
>One can only imagine how much money has then been wasted on consulting
>and support fees for said products.
>
>I suspect this partly explains why companies have been burning so much
>cash on Web sites over the last few years.
>
>Unsurprisingly, there was no mention of the dozens of application servers
>which are available at no cost, and are quite often far superior to
>commercial equivalents at every level.
>
>
>- James
>--
>James Morris
><jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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