as a user of oracle on AIX, I must agree.

If you want to see the best virtualization, don't look at power. Look at the zVM systems. I know a couple of very large sites that run it and it's very impressive.

Sparcs get spanked in most workloads. Stuff like price/performance matters, performace/watt doesn't matter at all when you have real work to do, unless your work involves sitting idle.

I use the IBM JVMs under AIX in a high volume production environment. It works pretty good except the headless AWT is broken. Otherwise, it does pretty well.

Webturd runs on the IBM JVM. IBM has it's own JVM that runs on mainframes, AIX, linux, and windows.

Oracle fucks up everything they touch.

Sons of bitches, what a crappy day.

I'd agree that a lot of J2EE applications and containers are complete shit (i'm a java developer and I like it, dammit). If you want to write good and scalable java code, a lot of times it's better to go with a lightweight system. an example is the Pojo message beans you can use with spring, or using embedded Jetty instead of a big slow ass websphere to serve up web services. Leaks in java apps crack me up because it's usually somebody who doesn't understand the feature they're using.

I use an open source MQ at work and it's never the bottleneck in high message rates (> 100 msgs/second easily)

well, sometimes you want more then one message consumer per process.

block all js from here and it loads a lot faster. A lot of web sites send the no cache headers for all JS so you have to wait for their slow ass init routines to finish.

funny, I got sick of the slow ass rendering and opened up firebug. I took all the stuff that took the longest to load and blocked it in squid. (the JS stuff seems to be the worst) and it loads really quick now.