Nelson King

Common sense holds that if organizations with hundreds, if not thousands, of servers consolidate, cutting the number of servers and server locations, they

Take this scenario: You have information in a database somewhere, and you need to get it up on your Web site -- perhaps in an interactive page or a

One of the motivations for using an application server is to improve performance by off-loading tasks from the Web server. Common sense says that with

One of the most frequent causes of poor Web server performance is data management or data-related transactions. Web servers and HTML in particular were

Web servers are a familiar and necessary component of the Internet. Application servers are less familiar but also a necessary element for at least some

If the software vendors have it right, Web developers will soon need to bust apart their notion of applications into many smaller pieces -- into Web