Re: Language choice for high-volume Oracle CGI interface?

From: Lee Fesperman <firstsql_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:04:34 -0700
Message-ID: <376BF7D2.687A@ix.netcom.com>

Greg McCann wrote:
> 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.

Add to your list of portable CGI languages - Jive (http://www.firstsql.com/jive/), the only one on the list specifically for CGI programming with database.

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Lee Fesperman, FFE Software, Inc. (http://www.firstsql.com) Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 15:04:34 CDT