Re: EJB versus RPG/COBOL

> Intentia is currently the only player I know of in
> the pure Java ERP market, and they're bleeding out.
> Revenues are dropping and they're going deep into
> the red (as in a $50 million loss in 2003).


Interestingly, Intentia was the source of the benchmarks I referred to in a
previous post, which ironically, perhaps unwittingly disclosed numerous
bottlenecks in J2EE architecture, even with simplified transactions,
designed more to cast a favorable view, than mirror a real world activity.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of mist cast over J2EE performance.  It's my
impression that EJB's, though laden with overhead which would kill a single
CPU server, would actually overcome bottlenecks built into Java application
servers, and will eventually be necessary, if developers insist on a 100%
J2EE implementation.

Nathan.