Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 / TODO From: eschmid+sic <email protected>
Date: 10/12/00

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:51:41PM -0500, Matt McClanahan wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 eschmid+sic <email protected> 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.

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> 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 

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