From: Marcin Kasperski acn.waw.pl> Organization: Ogólnopolski Strajk Przeciwko Strajkom Date: 04 Dec 2002 22:52:29 +0100 Subject: modperl usage in financial institutions URL: http://www.inteligo.pl I am more than happy being now able to add the new nice reference. Please, patch my English where necessary... Polish internet bank named Inteligo (http://www.inteligo.pl) recently migrated its transactional web service (the application used by the bank clients to make different kinds of payment orders, check account balances, etc) from a complicated Java-based solution to a modperl application. The application implements a web frontend to the business services implemented by the main bank system and accessed via the bank middleware. It is worth mentioning that the application constitutes the main access channel for the bank clients. After a few days of production use the application is perceived to be much faster and lighter than the one previously used. Two words of warning: - inteligo 'informational' website (the pages visible under www.inteligo.pl) still use PHP and probably will continue to, - don't treat this as easy 'perl is faster than Java' claim, there was a lot of design and programming work behind the new application... Being a person who suggested using this technology and worked in a core development team I can admit that modperl fulfilled my performance expectations and allowed us to develop a complicated application fairly quickly. Thanks to all the people who developed this nice piece of software and its documentation and to everyone who answered my and my colleagues questions during the project.