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by rmg

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I am in charge of outfitting my company with new technologies and software for our new corporate website. I am having a dificult time choosing between the type of servers, scripting languages, databases, and software programs to use. Can anyone help with some success or failure stories they have experienced with different technologies and software?(i.e. ASP versus JSP, Oracle versus Sybase, Lotus Notes? Domino? IBM?) Why did you ultimatley choose what you did in the end? What were your constraints? Any help os greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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by quahsays

Some suggestions:
1. you certainly need a Content Management Server, this will assist in personalisation.
2. for fast deployment of applications, i would still recommend ASP (it depends on your pool, if they are primary strong in J2EE, then go forJSP).
3. So far, Oracle is expensive, MS SQL 2000 would be a cheaper consideration
4. IBM? Gosh, they tie you to their DB2! Plus they have their own proprietary java stuff.

But I feel for a corporate web site, you certainly have personalisationfeature and for that, you would need content management server or create your system to categorised content for personalisation.

by erikdr

Well, our multination has some 'blue' preferences, but still we aren't unhappy about what we have deployed so far.
1. On Internet, _never_ use something Windows-based. (We reserve those for Intranet stuff). We had serious problems especially in security with it, Unix (or Linux) is a lot safer there.
2. So JSP and (for dynamic stuff) EJB is preferred. Weblogic and WebSphere are preferred platforms.
3. Database: Oracle (expensive, for special purpose stuff) or DB2 (mainstream). Even on Windows(Intranet) we could always rely on those and never saw a strong point for SQL Server, DB2 is even cheaper than MS here!
4. Domino is great for _static_ webservers based on content, and for quick development. We use it mostly on Intranet (& Windows), in extreme cases also on Internet (& Unix).

This is a first shot. More info available through e-mail...

Hope thiz helpz,

- The Netherlandz

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