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Monday, July 9th, 2007

Mainsoft Ports a Composite Application Platform to Java EE While Maintaining Original .NET Performance

There’s a very interesting performance study that shows the value of Mainsoft’s .NET to Java EE product – with Mainsoft porting from .NET can take weeks or months, not years. The benchmarks are of an ISVs actual application and port from Windows to Linux.

Mainsoft ports server components of an award-winning composite application platform solution to WebSphere® Application Server in three months. The ported application delivers equivalent performance and scalability under Java™ EE on Linux® as the original .NET application.

I was looking through the report and was amazed that in most of the testing scenarios, the .NET applications ran better on Linux than on Windows! Yes, faster. Take a look.

The software vendor successfully ported their .NET based application platform onto Java EE using Mainsoft’s technology and professional services saving $1M in R&D costs. The performance of this application was tested on the same hardware and under the same stress test conditions. The ported version of the application showed equivalent performance in average response time, and equivalent performance in server throughput. Thus, an SLA could be met using the ported version of the application without additional hardware investment. The Java EE version of the application also showed that in multi-CPU environments, the scalability characteristics of Java EE and WebSphere Application Server began to show marked improvements over the original .NET application.