JavaWorld: The need for speed, stability | Linux Today

JavaWorld: The need for speed, stability

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 1999

[ Thanks to B. Barrett
for this link. ]

Tower Technology’s TowerJ 3.1.4 for Linux dominates 15
other VMs in both performance and scalability, according to the
latest VolanoMark 2.1.2 benchmarks published on October 3 by Volano
LLC.

“Moreover, compared to previous VolanoMark results published on
May 31…raw server-side VM performance on the benchmark improved
for all vendors and platforms. This trend should continue as
vendors compete to produce the top VM.”

“Even with the increased performance, however, the network
scalability tests — with two exceptions — show disappointing
results, with some VMs incapable of handling anything but the
simplest concurrent connection levels.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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