Language choice for high-volume Oracle CGI interface?

We're doing a proposal for a system doing high-volume financial transactions on the internet. We're expecting 10,000 transactions per day at the beginning, up to 1,000,000 transactions per day eventually. The client has specified an Oracle database with an NT web server, using SSL for secure communications both between the browser client and our server and between remote servers and our main server.

We're debating what language to use for the CGI programming. C++, Java, Perl, ...? I have some experience using Perl for database access, but not with Oracle or on a system as large as this. Do you have any thoughts on the relative merits of these languages for this application? If possible, we would like to follow a path which wouldn't lock us in to a Microsoft platform.

Thanks,

Greg Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 11:09:03 CDT