Tom Menegatos

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September 19, 1999, on Application Servers:
Although I agree with a lot of the comments about KIVA/NAS I do not feel the same way about application servers in general. I've been working on the web for a relatively long time. In the past 3 years I've been working with application server technologies. We've had a lot of success with Sapphire/Web and all of it's components. I've seen people that didn't come from a software background (at least no C++/Java) develop functional applications in relatively short periods of time. A great thing about it is that it allows integration with other systems. Although running an Oracle 8 rdms might be the answer for some people you have to remember that there are many companies that have other/mixed rdbms systems. With Sapphire/Web we have the ability to talk to multiple databases and middleware services. This has allowed us to access some older systems via the web. NT is seen as easier to manage than unix so it's gaining a greater prescence in corporate america. Java's new ...