[Seaside] Convincing Web Application shops to use seaside

[Brian Brown]

Quoting "Germán S. Arduino" <gsa at softhome.net>:

> One additional thing to take in account is the web hosting of the Seaside
> apps. If in a common Linux Server it's possible to host php or perl apps
> until quantities of 100-200 sites with good performance, with Seaside,
> running Squeak in a headless mode, a minimun of 32 MB ram must be assigned
> to each VM. Than means only 32 sites in a 1GB Server. I think that this is a
> main problem to solve to sell Seaside apps widely. Obviously that don't
> apply in a private Intranet or a private server.
> 

A couple of other things to think about is the type of customer and what
constitutues an "app". If you are talking about things Horde/Imp/phprojekt
(freely available php web apps), then you most assuredly *not* going to run
100-200 sites on commodity hardware with decent performance.

Remember that it is possible to run many web apps inside of one seaside image;
not necessarily for multiple customers, but if you are a web app shop building
things for multiple customers and they are not actually doing the development,
then you could certainly do this. Seaside is a very powerful framework for web
apps, and I don't envision someone just needing a canned php guestbook or mail
form using seaside, any more than I would envision them using WebObjects.

;-)

Brian