From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-09-16T19:26:35+09:00
Subject: Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C#

Roland Schmitt wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Roland Schmitt wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>>> Btw, is J2EE enterprise ready?  Is there a significant number of
>>>> applications out there that make full use of J2EE's feature set
>>>> (including scalability features) and serve large numbers of
>>>> concurrent users?  I'm not prejudicing, just curious.
>>
>>> Yes, they are.
>>> I'm working in a company with products based on J2EE/JBoss where the
>>> scalability is one reason for our customers to choice the products.
>>>   They want to add users as they need and the front-end is a
>>> rich-client for image processing, not only a web front-end.
>>
>> Can you post some figures (# of hosts, max concurrent users etc.) or
>> is this somehow confidential?
> Ok, looked at my current installations, find one with:
> - 10 Servers (8*CPUs...)
> - 120-160 Users
> - Oracle and MSSSQL-DBs
> - SAP-Integration
>
> Hmm, ok, it is not that big, but because it is an type of accounting
> system, it must be very reliable/scalable.

You need 80 CPU's to serve 120-160 concurrent users?  That would be 2
concurrent users per cpu *max*.  This certainly sounds like bad resource
usage - or did I miss something here?

    robert