Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 14:15

Hello Carrie,

On 19 Nov 2007 13:08:13 -0000, Carrie wrote
> First I wouldn't use a Micro$oft server - unless you paid me.

I'd be interested to know if that was for philosophical or technical reasons
and if it was for technical reasons, what those reason were.

> If you really want scalable - use c,
> or nearly as scalable perl,
> or If you just want normal that can be tuned if you need to, PHP.
>
> Efficiency and therefore scaleability comes from being closer to
> the machine. And relative "native-ness".

I'm afraid this is not true. Scalability refers to a system's ability to
increase "work done" as the load on the system increases. For example, say
you had a database system that can handle 100 transactions per second. At
the moment the load (i.e. transactions from client systems) is 50
transactions per second, if the load doubles then "work done" will also
double. However, as the load increases past 100 transactions per
second, "work done" will remain constant, as the database can only handle
100 connections per second. It wont matter what language is used, the system
is not scalable. Scalability is a function of design not a function of
implementation.

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Gary Short
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