From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T12:27:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> That's really interesting. Are these big companies that have given up on
> major projects?
The one instance I'm most familiar with was a Linux/Apache/PHP project
using a legacy database. They were using Java for some essential
functionality but the real guts of the app was PHP. They pulled Java out
and moved the functionality somewhere else, but I don't recall where.

> In my experience, the only thing that compares to Java in its desire
> to be
> the only major application running on a server is Oracle (which seems
> to eat
> as much shared memory as it get its paws on). We sell an appliance
> product
> and have always resisted installing a JVM on it, despite the value it
> would
> bring, because of the memory issue.
Yeah ... last time I looked the minimum JVM was 32 MB, and I'm not sure
that would support more than one thread.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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