Mark raises a lot of good points here.

IIS/ASP performance is something we are still trying to quantify.  Our test
site http://www.bspusa.com does not receive enough hits at present to give
us an indication of performance under a heavy load.  The CVSD solution that
we deployed last year is hosted on an 988 and single 800mz NT server and
does not have any performance problems to date.  The overall solution is
providing services to about 80 VB-View sessions and browser based student
attendance accounting/student info. inquiry for 300+ teachers and
administrators. Web page response is typically one to two seconds.

If you are not seeing similar results I would investigate some of the other
middleware solutions which are now available.  The list continues to grow
but I would suggest you investigate Quest Software and Transformix Computer
Corporation's RPC based middleware solutions as well as possibly have a
look at WebAssist.  The web is certainly not a one size fits all market.

Security is an ongoing problem but I for one feel much safer with our HP
firewalled and the external web server isolated in the DMZ.


On Thu, 3 May 2001 19:12:15 -0400, Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>>Yes, you can use Enhydra, Tomcat, and other on HP3000, but how many
>>companies will allow their mission critical applications and systems to be
>>exposed to internet directly running web servers on same box. Having one
>>cheap box with windows NT or Linux will solve a lot of trouble that
company
>>will have.
>
>That's the nice thing about Enhydra, Tomcat etc, it can run on both whereas
>ASP can only run on Windows for free and at a cost on other machines.  That
>gives one some flexibility if needed.
>
>>And with coming .NET technologies from Microsoft, it will be much easiest
>>in the future to build WEB applications using .NET on windows servers,
then
>>running JAVA aplication servers.
>
>EJB will offer the same capabilities of .NET most likely.
>
>>Make more sence to have front end on one of those servers and keep mission
>>critical applications and databases on HP3000.
>
>No argument here!
>
>>I'm wondering how many of DOT-COMS that are out of business now were using
>>so expensive aplication servers just to run JSP pages and have some web
>>access to their systems, and how many of them were ones who were running
>>ASP pages?
>
>Have you been to www.ellisislandrecords.org?  It runs on ASP and it is
>sooooooo slow.  Granted, it's getting a great deal of hits, but the
>technology alone won't make a good site by itself.
>
>>To run ASP pages you buy windows , you have full support for IIS server,
>>transaction server, operating system.
>
>In light of this weeks security hole that IIS leaves in Win2K, I don't know
>if I would be sleeping so well...
>
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