LOSING CUSTOMERS DAILY, his boss threatening to fire him, Jason Monberg
gambled his company's future on Enterprise JavaBeans architecture
CIO Magazine, January 15, 2000
A new Java technology...Remembering Java's cross-platform promise, Monberg hoped he could boost performance by developing a big Java
application and adding reliable Sun servers to his erratic Windows NT servers. He rebuilt Sparks.com's e-commerce engine using
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) architecture and went live in slightly
less than four months. So far the system has held up. " and also: "...says Rachel Moseley, CIO for the Fixed Income group at Instinet.
"It's obviously a guess, but I believe we've cut our development time in half using enterprise beans".