Re: eRserver

I can't comment on exactly how eRserver benchmarks. But your comments on
Java are sadly misplaced, maybe '95 esque. You'll find that allot of the
misconceptions around java as a language stem from crtique with in roots
from the frist widely accessible virtual machine  1.0.2. Many of the so
called performance issues have long since been resolved which is quite
miraculous for a language a little over 8 years old.

You'll also be pleased to find that many different virtual machine
perform very differently to the free sun hotspot virtual machine, some
such as TowerJ allow for enhanced compile to platform capabitilities
though of course you loose platform independence. But thats not an issue
for everyone.

I could list the urban myths perpetuated about Java's performance, but
as this is not a Java developers list I think its out of place.

As for using eRserver, we decided against it and for clients that
require clustered highly available datagroups, we recommend oracle. I
would not say it was its performance or reliability per se, but rather
support, tools that lacked for someone who had different needs to our
regular uses who are quite happy with Postgre.


Renney Thomas wrote:

> I would like to hear about any issues related to erserver. I was a
> little concerned about its use of Java.  Java is a great tool for
> creating application frameworks for the payroll department, but using
> it for back-end system-level application programming is a bit
> unnerving. Java is generally slow, memory and CPU intensive and
> doesn't provide for tight integration like C/C++ applications.
> Thanks
>
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