1. Here below are some application servers in competition with ZOPE:
JBoss, Enhydra, Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle OC4J, .NET Framework
From the text, three application servers have been mentioned like ZOPE, JBoss, Enhydra and IBM’s Websphere. Below table is a simple comparison among them.
|
Application Server |
Latest version |
Released date |
|
ZOPE |
3.3.1 |
14 Jan 2007 |
|
JBoss |
5.0.0. Beta4 |
10 Feb 2008 |
|
Enhydra |
7.2-1 |
25 Oct 2007 |
|
IBM Websphere |
6.1.1.6 |
29 Mar 2008 |
Often, the release cycle of Internet software is shorter than business software.
2. Among IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Sybase, they have different solutions for e-commerce but IBM, Microsoft and Sybase are focusing on middleware. For example, IBM is selling IBM Websphere 6.0. Only Oracle has mentioned her e-commerce solution with associated database product, Oracle 10g. Compared to other four giants, MySQL is more aggressive and active to develop their database product for the e-commerce environment.
3. Nowadays, integration will become a critical factor because much data need to be exchanged across different systems, like accounting system and payroll system, for various purposes such as system automation or realtime tracing. With the result that many external interfacings are needed. This will create a lot of software customizations, software re-engineering or security risks.
ERP systems aims at integrating different data sources and processes of organization into single system. The role of ERP within enterprise software architecture is the foundation. Based on needs from different enterprises or industries, they are capable of plugging various function modules into the ERP.
4. Among Javascript, VBScript and DTML, all of them are scripting languages and can be embedded in HTML. In addition, they provide dynamic \ interactive HTML content.
5. ASP, JSP and PHP have the following similarities:
i. They are embedded n HTML.
ii. They can provide dynamic web content.
iii. They are scripting language.
They have the following differences:
i. ASP can support Microsoft OS only while the others can support multi-platform.
ii. ASP tied to MS IIS while the others can run in any web server.
iii. JSP and PHP are open source while ASP is not.
iv. ASP and PHP are server-side scripting while JSP is client-side scripting.
v. JSP and PHP support OOP while ASP doesn’t.
