Re: Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 06/10/10 19.22, Nathan Andelin skrev:
> Quoted from Get Thee to the Web, Part 3 by Paul Tuohy:
>
> "Scalability relates to how many people will be accessing your application at
> the same time, and how well your application can handle the workload without
> detrimental response times. Usually, you would use Java for high usage, PHP for
> medium, and CGIDEV2 for below medium."
>
> http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg092210-story01.html
>
>
> What makes people THINK that J2EE scales better than PHP, and PHP scales better
> than CGIDEV2?  Is that thinking correct?
Because J2EE has been designed to work even when the workload cannot be 
handled by a single box anymore but needs to spread over multiple boxes.

(It is not easy to do right, though :) )