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

date posted 19th November 2007 21:17

Hello Carrie,

Carrie wrote:
>
> Gary Short wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Both really, I guess it would be my early experience with IIS sever,
> which was a mess until a while after 2000 (the year)

Ah cool, so not based on the current product set then?

> and it depends upon what you mean by scaleability,

Hmm no, not really, scaleability is a well defined term; that's a little
like saying "it depends upon what you mean by the number two"

> and of course the nature of your project.
> if you just want to go faster/deal with more connections, you can do an
> awful lot by making sure that the code executed is as efficient as
> possible,

No, scaleability isn't about going faster. Its the throughput increasing
as the load increases; not really anything to do with execution speed.

> So far I have either been asked to write things that are simple and need
> to go fast, or are more complicated but are not so time critical.

Okay.

> As a "nerdy" opinion I am sure you are correct

Thanks

> and that lots of
> academics would back you up,

I'm sure they would too.

> but in the real world,

Just out of interest, what world do you think I inhabit?

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Cheers,
Gary
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