Web Server - OS Performance & Compatibility Issue

[Shil]

Hi All
I am a System Architect how moved from a Big Enterprise to a Small Startup.
I've been Investigating on Web Server and OS Performance and Compatibility
issues, this majorly draws my attention to evolving web Technologies too.
Having worked with NT only my knowledge about NON-MS tech. is very limited.

What I need to know is, what are the dependable Web servers compatible to
NT4.0, would they be as robust as IIS4 ?
How long have they been around as Commercial Web servers, any performance,
functionality (Specially Transaction Processing/ Message Queuing) issues
when run on NT specially?

I've known a little about Apache (also that it occupies 53% of commercial
web servers..!), but most of peaple I talked to have been running it on Unix.

I'd be delighted to hear from someone who's used, administered non-MS web
server on NT and/or constructed system over these platforms with Servlets,
EJB, JINI..!


Regards

[Tanveer Ahmed Ansari]

hi Shil:

I'd suggest you to use the BEA Weblogic Server. Its performance is outclass.

Regards
Tanveer.
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"Shil" <Shilpsb@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Hi All
>I am a System Architect how moved from a Big Enterprise to a Small Startup.
>I've been Investigating on Web Server and OS Performance and Compatibility
>issues, this majorly draws my attention to evolving web Technologies too.
>Having worked with NT only my knowledge about NON-MS tech. is very limited.
>
>What I need to know is, what are the dependable Web servers compatible to
>NT4.0, would they be as robust as IIS4 ?
>How long have they been around as Commercial Web servers, any performance,
>functionality (Specially Transaction Processing/ Message Queuing) issues
>when run on NT specially?
>
>I've known a little about Apache (also that it occupies 53% of commercial
>web servers..!), but most of peaple I talked to have been running it on
Unix.
>
>I'd be delighted to hear from someone who's used, administered non-MS web
>server on NT and/or constructed system over these platforms with Servlets,
>EJB, JINI..!
>
>
>Regards
>

[Scott Graf]

"Shil" <Shilpsb@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Hi All
>I am a System Architect how moved from a Big Enterprise to a Small Startup.
>I've been Investigating on Web Server and OS Performance and Compatibility
>issues, this majorly draws my attention to evolving web Technologies too.
>Having worked with NT only my knowledge about NON-MS tech. is very limited.
>
>What I need to know is, what are the dependable Web servers compatible to
>NT4.0, would they be as robust as IIS4 ?
>How long have they been around as Commercial Web servers, any performance,
>functionality (Specially Transaction Processing/ Message Queuing) issues
>when run on NT specially?
>
>I've known a little about Apache (also that it occupies 53% of commercial
>web servers..!), but most of peaple I talked to have been running it on
Unix.
>
>I'd be delighted to hear from someone who's used, administered non-MS web
>server on NT and/or constructed system over these platforms with Servlets,
>EJB, JINI..!
>
>
>Regards
>

If you are going to use NT use IIS. There is no way around it insofar as
performance and stability. You might try using solaris as your web server
and use NT as your RMI base. In other words place your CORBA orb or RMI
objects on your nt box and run servlets from the solaris. This way your
web traffic can be maintained by the solaris system (better than NT), but
still have the NT platform(sounds like you must) in which you place your
logic objects. Hope this helps

zorkleplex