Posted by Kim Andr� Aker� on 08/22/06 00:43

Roman wrote:

> Out of curiosity, anyone knows what does Ebay run on and how many
> servers ?
>
> The front-end page says "Java Technology, powered by Sun" in top-right
> corner. When you click, it reads: "eBay is Java™ Powered running on
> powerful Sun Fire UltraSPARC® and AMD Opteron™ servers ..."
>
> My browser gets the following headers, they seem to have mix of
> technologies:
>
> [snip signatures from several servers]

Well, Java is designed to run on just about any platform, and WebSphere
Application Server [1,2] is a J2EE [3] environment owned by IBM.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSphere_Application_Server
[2] http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/
[3] Java 2, Enterprise Editon, http://java.sun.com/javaee/

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