Posted by larry on 04/02/07 00:42

Reading through your posts you are looking for:

- a large scale web based application.
- This app will be hit by thousands of users
- large data sets and be fed by GPS handheld devices such as cell
phones, which will also require apps we write running on them.
- The response time of current data to screen is paramount (which
relies in largely on DB design I realize).
- Reliability.

Those are your metrics, which I can tell you is not some slap together
job from off the shelf resources (it may be off-the shelf, but you are
going to have to do some fine tweaking to get it to run properly).

- Security, security, security which is more secure.

Especially this, you need to know what your threats are and how they
are handled.

- Development time.

This leads to the old and true addage, do you want it fast or do you
want it fixed right? You probably are speccing past any Rapid
Application Development platform (which does not neccisarrily equate
to rapid response application).

I have see ASP stuff do great things and I have also seen it do lousy
things (many times). The crux is to invest in the time and
responsibility to get it to work on the platform that meets your
needs.

Don't pick the language first. Start with the list at the top and see
what's available to meet those meeds and how it will mesh (especially
the cell/GPS-web connectivity) some deveopment platforms will work,
some won't and I bet some part of it will need to be something finely
tuned and custom.

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