Re: Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 While I don't ordinarily disagree with Paul, in this case I would 
agree with Kevin, the language has very little to do with scaleability.  
The server  (both hardware and software ) has everything to with it.  
I'll put up a smaller IBM i/Zend Server against a larger Java server on 
any hardware most anytime and get equal or better results.  Furthermore 
the Zend server is much easier to manage.  Advanced configuration is 
about the same difficulty on both WebSphere and Zend servers so a toss 
up there.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 10/6/2010 12:29 PM, Kevin Schroeder wrote:
> Not correct, IMHO.  "Scalability" has virtually nothing to do with the
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:23 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: [WEB400] Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?
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> Quoted from Get Thee to the Web, Part 3 by Paul Tuohy:
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> "Scalability relates to how many people will be accessing your
> application at
> the same time, and how well your application can handle the workload
> without
> detrimental response times. Usually, you would use Java for high usage,
> PHP for
> medium, and CGIDEV2 for below medium."
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> http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg092210-story01.html
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> What makes people THINK that J2EE scales better than PHP, and PHP scales
> better
> than CGIDEV2?  Is that thinking correct?
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> -Nathan