Are you tired of people yacking about how Linux isn’t a serious application server platform? I know I am.
Anyone with two neurons to connect together knows that Linux, armed with Samba and Apache, kicks ass as a Web server, and as a file and print server for Windows PCs. Still, the critics whack Linux. Lately, they snipe that if Linux can’t reliably do eight-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and the like, it’s not an enterprise computing platform.
OK, so maybe they have a point there. On the other hand, have you priced Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Datacenter server with its eight-way SMP processing lately? Try a cool million bucks and change, baby. But, sure if you really need high-end business computing, Solaris and AIX are the way to go.
But is that really true? What do you really run on high-end servers anyway? If you’re doing massive data transfers, maybe you should pick up an IBM zSeries (mainframe) or an iSeries (AS/400) with Linux. Most of us, however, use high-end servers for application servers, and for that, Linux servers and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) do just fine.
And this isn’t me just spouting off. IBM offers WebSphere, its J2EE server and the heart of its entire middleware family, on Linux for all four of their hardware lines.
IBM isn’t the only one who’s got the Linux and Java middleware religion. Oracle is working…
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