Just FYI, ATM actually uses 53 byte cells... This odd number came as a result of some compromise in the standards process. Europe wanted 64 bytes and the US wanted 48(?) bytes, because of the slight differences between an E1 and a T1.
Isn't sugar cane somewhat less-than-plentiful in the US? I'd imagine that that would make it a poor option for fuel up here. On the other hand, corn or other grain alcohol might be the ticket.
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A Java application server is a platform written primarily in Java that serves web content through Servlets. For example, IBM has WebSphere Application Server (WAS) that is the core to most of their web products. It is a servlet manager with a DB API all combined with a modified version of Apache. You can develop with this directly, or you can purchase the next step up of IBM Websphere Commerce Suite which has tools and a DB schema for web (especially e-commerce) development.
An app server is not a physical computer, merely a server package akin to a web server or ftp server. The clustering capabilities refer to the capability to share the load across several machines and having been programmed with parallel computing in mind.
I think my post implies that DB2 and Websphere aren't available for linux, which isn't true. DB2 and Websphere are both available for linux, but they're not the latest versions.
If not having to pay for an operating system is important, why would you pay for software that is already available for operating systems you can pay for?
I work for an IBM business partner that develops e-commerce solutions using Websphere and DB2. It doesn't look like we're going to change this platform anytime soon, if ever (esp. since WS 5 should kick ass). Right now we deploy on AIX and (bleh... customers shouldn't be allowed to choose) Windows NT. We use Linux for our nameservers and intranet machine, as well as mail host and miscellaneous web server. There are several of us who use Linux as our workstation OS, instead of that icky Win2k. A lot of us are much more comfortable and powerful on Linux than AIX, and if WS was available for it, we would adopt the OS much more than we already have.
In addition to the development and systems staff adopting it more, we'd also see a lot more customers using Linux. Right now, they buy their machine, OS, and e-commerce site through us. Recently, we've had a lot of customers that choose NT over AIX because they don't want to shell out the $$ for an AIX license. I don't actually know what one costs, but I've checked with my friend in systems and he says that it's significantly more. This is a perfect case where the company would be a linux user, but only because of the cost, not because of the open source factor. They would save money, by not paying for any OS, let alone AIX, and we would save tons in systems support (NT has a tendency to give us significantly more problems than AIX or linux).
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Just FYI, ATM actually uses 53 byte cells... This odd number came as a result of some compromise in the standards process. Europe wanted 64 bytes and the US wanted 48(?) bytes, because of the slight differences between an E1 and a T1.
Isn't sugar cane somewhat less-than-plentiful in the US? I'd imagine that that would make it a poor option for fuel up here. On the other hand, corn or other grain alcohol might be the ticket.
A Java application server is a platform written primarily in Java that serves web content through Servlets. For example, IBM has WebSphere Application Server (WAS) that is the core to most of their web products. It is a servlet manager with a DB API all combined with a modified version of Apache. You can develop with this directly, or you can purchase the next step up of IBM Websphere Commerce Suite which has tools and a DB schema for web (especially e-commerce) development.
An app server is not a physical computer, merely a server package akin to a web server or ftp server. The clustering capabilities refer to the capability to share the load across several machines and having been programmed with parallel computing in mind.
--Dave
I think my post implies that DB2 and Websphere aren't available for linux, which isn't true. DB2 and Websphere are both available for linux, but they're not the latest versions.
--Dave
If not having to pay for an operating system is important, why would you pay for software that is already available for operating systems you can pay for?
I work for an IBM business partner that develops e-commerce solutions using Websphere and DB2. It doesn't look like we're going to change this platform anytime soon, if ever (esp. since WS 5 should kick ass). Right now we deploy on AIX and (bleh... customers shouldn't be allowed to choose) Windows NT. We use Linux for our nameservers and intranet machine, as well as mail host and miscellaneous web server. There are several of us who use Linux as our workstation OS, instead of that icky Win2k. A lot of us are much more comfortable and powerful on Linux than AIX, and if WS was available for it, we would adopt the OS much more than we already have.
In addition to the development and systems staff adopting it more, we'd also see a lot more customers using Linux. Right now, they buy their machine, OS, and e-commerce site through us. Recently, we've had a lot of customers that choose NT over AIX because they don't want to shell out the $$ for an AIX license. I don't actually know what one costs, but I've checked with my friend in systems and he says that it's significantly more. This is a perfect case where the company would be a linux user, but only because of the cost, not because of the open source factor. They would save money, by not paying for any OS, let alone AIX, and we would save tons in systems support (NT has a tendency to give us significantly more problems than AIX or linux).
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