I just got off the phone with etrade (unsuccessfully trying to re-assert my 'indication of interest'). According to them, they re-opened the indication process at a bit after 10 AM, and closed it a bit after 11 AM. He said it was open just a bit less than an HOUR.
This does screw over those of us who have lives (and jobs!) who don't camp out at Etrade waiting for these things to happen.
"I'm sorry sir, there's nothing that can be done about it now unless you're part of the friends and family [sic] program" At least the RedHat chosen still get to play.
I'm using Apache JServ with great success (or should I say that it's the most stable, most problem-free piece so far). I think that it's termed more of a 'servlet engine' than an 'application server' but I'm not crystal clear on the differeneces anyway. Speed has not been an issue AT ALL - it generates and serves some dynamic pages faster than similar static ones elsewhere on our intranet. The servlet solutions take a hit on the first instantiaion, but are blazing fast thereafter.
In our environ, it's part of a 3-tier (or is it 4?) system (apache-jserv-openlink middleware-ms sql & db2) that's in partial production. The earlier beta version were a b*tch to configure and get active, but are very stable once you do. I'll be trying out the 1.0 versions this week.
I've seen instructions (on blackdown.org, I think...) about getting Sun's JWS set up and running on other OSs. It' is 100% pure java - you know, write once, run anywhere.;-)
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I just got off the phone with etrade (unsuccessfully trying to re-assert my 'indication of interest'). According to them, they re-opened the indication process at a bit after 10 AM, and closed it a bit after 11 AM. He said it was open just a bit less than an HOUR.
This does screw over those of us who have lives (and jobs!) who don't camp out at Etrade waiting for these things to happen.
"I'm sorry sir, there's nothing that can be done about it now unless you're part of the friends and family [sic] program" At least the RedHat chosen still get to play.
I'm miffed....
-Bill
I'm using Apache JServ with great success (or should I say that it's the most stable, most problem-free piece so far). I think that it's termed more of a 'servlet engine' than an 'application server' but I'm not crystal clear on the differeneces anyway. Speed has not been an issue AT ALL - it generates and serves some dynamic pages faster than similar static ones elsewhere on our intranet. The servlet solutions take a hit on the first instantiaion, but are blazing fast thereafter.
In our environ, it's part of a 3-tier (or is it 4?) system (apache-jserv-openlink middleware-ms sql & db2) that's in partial production. The earlier beta version were a b*tch to configure and get active, but are very stable once you do. I'll be trying out the 1.0 versions this week.
Feel free to email questions.
I've seen instructions (on blackdown.org, I think...) about getting Sun's JWS set up and running on other OSs. It' is 100% pure java - you know, write once, run anywhere. ;-)
-Bill