Re: web programming - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adam Lang
Subject Re: web programming
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Msg-id 00bb01c027e7$f8b1bba0$330a0a0a@Adam
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In response to web programming  (Michelle Murrain <mpm@norwottuck.com>)
List pgsql-general
They didn't work for Sun, per se.  They mostly do hosting and they do it on
Soalris.  Granted, I am unaware of how tight they are with Sun, but as with
all advice, it has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] web programming


> > As far as perl goes, I know some web develoeprs for a consulting firm
that
> > use Solaris and they are pretty tight in the industry.  Their advice to
me
> > was that if I already don't know Perl, don't learn it.
>
>   You expect anything different from a Sun representative?
>
>    One of our competitors sunk well over a million bucks into Sun/Oracle
> hardware, and thought they'd be "cutting-edge" by doing all of their
> back-end programming in Java.  The end result is that our $20,000 cluster
> using Linux, Postgres, and Perl out-performs their setup by a very
> significant factor, and also has a greater potential for scalability.
It's
> also a lot easier for us to find programmers than they can, and we turn
out
> new products faster than they do.
>
> steve


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