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

Don't let anyone tell you C++ is faster than Java- It's not anymore. use the hotspot engine, write the thing in Java,
and save your company about a million bucks. - Mark

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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
Received on Sun Jun 20 1999 - 03:55:03 CDT