Any real advantages of SunONE/SJSWS sun sparc over apache linux
We are looking at doing a POC with an x86 blade solution, and ultimately transfering our SunONE/SJSWS on Solaris sparc traffic (currently on v240s) to some flavor of apache linux intel. Most our 1st tier traffic is static, passing dynamic content to various versions of weblogic on the second tier. Does anyone know of any significant reasons not to change our 1st tier technology this way? My apache experience is limited to small websites, with pass through to jboss and tomcat. Thanks a bunch in advance!
-Norm
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no990naa] at [2007-11-27 0:53:02]
# 1
Hi Norman,
I抦 an old iPlanet customer, today Sun Microsystems. I抳e seven year experience with Sun Web Server and I抎 like to share with you a little bit of my knowledge on this product.
We抳e a different environment than yours because we use the Sun Web Server to serve static and dynamic content.
Our Sun Web Server hosts a complex financial application and we have living in an era or instability in world. It makes that our application has millions simultaneous access in seconds.
The highest example is 9/11, all clients simultaneous entered on our application and made millions operations in seconds and the Sun Web Server was strong and we didn抰 have any downtime on this day.
And since this catastrophe we have others instability in the world and never the Sun Web Server stops.
The Apache foundation has great ideas, today I can抰 live without ANT. The Sun Microsystems make great deals on Open Source. So, why do I believe that Sun Web Server is better than Apache Web Server / Tomcat?
Because in my personal opinion a good product needs a reliable and brilliant team and a strong company supporting it and the Sun Web Server have all of it.
The Web Server 7 is free and has a reliable, professional and competent support on the Forum for simple and complex questions at Sun Support Services. I paid for the Sun Support Services for many years and I always have fast solutions for my issues.
And with Apache, who will help finding answers to your issues? The Sun Web Server has dedicated and qualified support team for it.
I hope those words help you in your decision and an advice to you, take a look in the past posts you will understand because I said all this things to you.
Good luck.
Ges7a at 2007-7-11 23:24:45 >
# 2
Sun Java System Web Server has significantly better performance and scalability than Apache, so it makes a better front-end static content server than Apache. At higher numbers of concurrent connections, the performance difference can be 2x.
(It also has integrated, in-process Java support, so if you decide to serve JSPs in the first tier, you'll get a significant performance boost for them, too.)
