Mat Schaffer wrote: >> On 7/9/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10 / gmail.com> wrote: >>> I haven't met anyone working for a large or reasonably-large company >>> who is thinking of mandating anything but Java. Python is generally >>> considered highly suspect and Ruby isn't on the radar at all. Ajax >>> is seen >>> by many as a dangerous and subversive practice that must not be >>> allowed to >>> take root. If you have examples to the contrary, I'd be really >>> interested to >>> hear them. > > Comcast is laying some serious AJAX groundwork these days. We still > do a lot of Java, but I've done Ruby for smaller projects already. > -Mat I know of several organizations that have thrown Java out because of excessive memory usage on the servers. What I don't know is whether the alternatives (PHP and ASP-non-.NET) are any more respectful of one's memory budget than Java. > > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://linuxcapacityplanning.com