Re: Tomcat vs. Websphere (was: JAVA400-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 224)

A few good things about Tomcat:

  1. Very easy to set up and to use.
  2. Very reliable. We have used it since pre version 3 before it was
     named Tomcat.
  3.  Requires very little horse power. People put it on all kinds of
     servers (can be a big AS400 or a tiny $200 PC) and run our
     applications off AS400 data through JDBC.

Regards
Bruce
http://www.mrc-productivity.com/







Holden Tommy wrote:

LOL this place is much the same David...open source = da debil

Thanks,
Tommy Holden


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Subject: Tomcat vs. Websphere (was: JAVA400-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 224)

Kelly Cookson wrote:

Tomcat is definitely a good servlet engine. But our managers won't
authorize production use of any 3rd party application without a

support

package to back it up. If we have a problem with Tomcat, we want to be
able to pick up the phone, call support, and say, "How do we fix

this?"

This is the biggest stumbling block to all open source applications in
our shop.

Had a funny discussion with someone at COMMON this last week ... they
were telling me about a customer of theirs didn't allow any open source
software installed on any systems.  Apparently, this included embedded
software too.  They had a conniption when they found out that WDSC was
based on Eclipse and the intranet system they bought was based on
Tomcat.

david