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> but most of the large enterprises (banks, Telcos, etc) I've visted in my consulting run WebSphere or IIS and have never heard of HAproxy or Ngnix. WebSphere
by AlisdairO 12y ago
> but most of the large enterprises (banks, Telcos, etc) I've visted in my consulting run WebSphere or IIS and have never heard of HAproxy or Ngnix.
WebSphere is an app server rather than a straight http server. The equivalent to Apache/Nginx from IBM would be IBM HTTP Server, which is an extension of Apache.
- parasubvert 12y agoI didn't want to really get into the distinction (Apache is an app server too if you consider mod_*). Yes, IHS is common and they will often use that. As part of my broader point, IHS is a product, one of many Apache-based products. They're not using the open source project code directly. Even if IBM's "innovations" are modest, they're using it because IHS and the WAS plugin work best with WebSphere. I've managed to convince some to avoid this combo in favour of a simple HAproxy, but it's hard.