[Mono-list] .Net App Server

[Tom Reilly]

The market for app servers in 2003 is around 2.5 billion dollars
according to IDC so maybe you're right ;-)  Of course your competition 
includes the likes of MS, IBM, Sun, and Oracle.  

Open source app servers haven't fared so well, corporate IT
departments like established companies, consulting and support 
services and all that (and that's where these companies make most of
their money, not on the software licensing).  Also, all open source 
app servers (that I know of) are Java based and never managed to reach 
critical mass (mostly, I believe, because of the lack of a first class 
open source Java VM).  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel@ximian.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: Tom Reilly
> Cc: Dave Bettin; mono-list@go-mono.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-list] .Net App Server
> 
> 
> > An application server usually comprises:
> > 
> > 1) HTTP(S) server
> > 2) RDBMS connectivity (ADO.NET)
> > 3) Dynamic web page scripting language (ASP.NET)
> > 4) clustering support (load balancing/fail over)
> > 5) Web Services (.NET remoting)
> > 6) application packaging/deployment functionality
> > 7) administration/monitoring tools
> > 
> > So take Apache, Mono and implement 4,6,7 and you'd have
> > a Mono app server.
> 
> Thanks for the info.  
> 
> OH MY GOD!  Maybe Ximian should do some of that?
> 
> Miguel.
>