I am a Sybase employee. EAServer is the number 2 app server in terms of installed base, behind BEA. I think that will reverse this year, we are already seeing signs of that happening. All loyalties aside, BEA is a BITCH to install, configure, and learn, and our customers tell us there are performance and back-end integration issues. BEA has never submitted to 3rd party performance tests, and they apparently, like SilverStream, have some issues there. Also, we cluster across networks. BEA requires all machines in a cluster to be on the same subnet, and for failover, to share a harddrive or mirrored set. EAServer was given the app server Analyst's Choice award by PC Week this year, I believe February. ciao.
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I am a Sybase employee. EAServer is the number 2 app server in terms of installed base, behind BEA. I think that will reverse this year, we are already seeing signs of that happening. All loyalties aside, BEA is a BITCH to install, configure, and learn, and our customers tell us there are performance and back-end integration issues. BEA has never submitted to 3rd party performance tests, and they apparently, like SilverStream, have some issues there. Also, we cluster across networks. BEA requires all machines in a cluster to be on the same subnet, and for failover, to share a harddrive or mirrored set. EAServer was given the app server Analyst's Choice award by PC Week this year, I believe February. ciao.