NYCPHP Meetup

[John Lacey]

Tim Gales wrote:

> You might find this interesting:
> 
> "Despite a strong commitment among enterprises that are developing
> applications around Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, those
> organizations are only averaging about 88 percent availability for
> existing Java-based production applications..."
> 
> "With an average availability of 88 percent, that is "the equivalent of
> having an application down one day a week..."
> 
> "When it comes to meeting performance expectations, respondents also
> reported that on average they achieved their target performance only 80
> percent of the time. Some 65 percent of the respondents reported achieving
> their target performance 90 percent of the time..."
> 
> This comes from an article "Survey Questions Java App Reliability" By
> Paula Musich November 18, 2003 at
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1388643,00.asp?kc=EWNWS111903DTX1K000
> 0599. The survey covered 
> 360 enterprises representing 16 industries, 43 countries, and equally
> divided between large and small organizations.


"statistics" are probably reason enough to start on a CxO-level document


47% of statistics are made up on the spot

:)
J