RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried any stress testing? I would suspect the AS400 will behave
better with large transaction rates than would the Microsoft server. For one
or two requests trickling in, you probably see better response from the
little guy, but it will get plowed under by volume.  I think Brad Stone has
been collecting performance data on AS400 as web server. Perhaps he'll share
some numbers.....

Eric DeLong

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nathanma@haaga.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:13 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: What About Price vs. Performance?


"Get thee to the Web".  We've been hearing that from IBM.  But I have
concerns about iSeries price vs. performance for Web applications.

I've been reviewing published performance data recently on a couple of Web
applications.  Both applications were hosted on Intel servers.  Microsoft
Windows technologies were used to develop and host the applications.

I've also been developing OS/400 based web applications lately.  The
problem, is that these Windows based Web applications perform better than
mine, and on systems that cost 1/6 that of mine.  The complexity of the
applications, and the size of the HTML responses, are comparable to mine,
but the hardware/OS price vs. performance is better by a factor of 7 to 8.

So, how can I expect the iSeries to compete as a Web application server?

Thanks,

Nathan.


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