[NTLUG:Discuss] Transport tool - opinions

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Stephen Davidson wrote:

> not to deflate your sails to badly, but that is what M$ would like you 
> to believe.  Visa Credit Card Processing, and American Airlines 
> Reservations (for two of the large clusters that I can think of off the 
> top of my head) are built on and operate using the Java platform.  I am 
> not sure what AA uses for their OS, but Visa does use Unix (Solaris, I 
> think, but don't quote me, it could be BSD). ...

I had a friend on that project at AA (or at least it sounds like the same 
project).  When he left 2 years ago, it was on Solaris, with an Oracle DB.

Kevin