RE: WebSphere on NT vs. AS/400

>> 1) Domino is running for a while.  (After shutting down and startup
>> performance is better for a while)

> Domino is something I avoid.  I don't think Domino lives well with other
> applications, which I believe is one of the reasons IBM came out with the
> dedicated Domino server.

Domino runs well on our 8-way 830 alongside all of our production apps.  It
also runs just fine on our 270 that we use for webserving.  On this
machine, we only use it for SMTP.

I believe, and I may very well be wrong, that Domino, like WAS, likes the
newer processors with more L2 cache.  We also have a Domino 5.0.8 server
running on an old 170, and the thing barely crawls along.  Domino is a pig.
Especially R5 compared to 4.x.  I can only imagine what Domino6 will be
like.  I imagine it will want a 12-way.


>> We have lost too much time 'waiting' and are planning to put Domino on a
>> separate machine in future.  For now, we would like to install WAS on a
>> Win2000 machine.

> Good luck.  Moving your web application development to Win2K is a bad
idea,
> in my opinion.  I have seen no need for it.  I suspect that if you
offload
> the Domino workload, you will find that WebSphere runs much better, and
you
> won't have to consider offloading to a Windows machine.

If you're on a 720, you DEFINITELY want to get Domino off there if you're
trying to run WAS as well.  Get a DSD or a 0-interactive 270.  Or throw
Domino on an NT/2K box.  It's not as stable, but it does OK if Domino's not
mission critical and it's cheap.  Clustering them isn't too hard if you
need high availability (so they say).

Mike Eovino