Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:51:41PM -0500, Matt McClanahan wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 eschmid+sic@s.netic.de wrote: [...] > There's a distinction between an application server and an ASP, however. > As I understand it, an ASP is often a company or group that provides the > applications. You've seen the ads. "We enable fast and powerful > Internet commerce for your business", etc. All those great buzzwords. An > application server typically implies an actual product which provides, in > one package, all the functions required to build a web-based app, or suite > of apps. I know that there is a distinction between an server and a provider. I have done just a google search with "application server". The Webopedia definition and links says about application server: A program run on a mid-sized machine that handles all applications operations between browser-based computers and a company's back-end business applications or databases. Because many databases cannot interpret commands written in HTML, the application server works as a translator, allowing, for example, a custumer with a browser to search an online retailer's database for pricing information. Application servers are seen as filling a large and growing market; more than 25 companies now offer such products. This documunet was last modiefied Sepptember 23, 1998 > Looking to the Java servlet world for examples, Enhydra is an application > server, while Tomcat is not. Tomcat is a servlet engine (And PHP is a PHP > engine), whereas Enhydra builds on Tomcat, providing whatever that other > stuff is that makes it an application server. :) My company sells a content management system. It could be called application server. It's based on Unix/Apache/MySQL/PHP. The customer have to install ASP himself or we will install it ourself. -Egon -- http://www.linuxtag.de/ http://php.net/books.php http://www.concert-band.de/