Tuxedo?

Hello Everyone, My company is considering using some TP monitor system for transaction processing. In particular we are interested in Tuxedo, Encina, etc.. I wonder if some one with working experience can kindly provide with me some advice/lessons on this issue. Below is a list of questions that I put together, without much in-depth knowledge of either products: 1. What is the development time-to-product/market? How long is the training process for developers? 2. What is the cost/staffing requirements in administration? 3. How complicated or error-proness of either of the APIs? Tricks and traps? 4. Is there any performance problem with the two-phase commit with a RDBMS backend? Can I do 50, 100/sec inserts and updates to two or three databases at the same time? 5. What about the future of the products? CORBA? Is Orcle/Sybase/Micrsoft doing anything in this area? 6. Are the APIs object-oriented or rather low-level buffer/offset counting stuff? How can I incorporate that into an distributed OO app framework? 7. How long does it take to have a proof of concept and the decision making procedure? Again, thanks very much for your help. Your suggestions and advice are highly, highly appreciated. Fred Xia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ E*Trade Group, Inc. | #include <std/disclaimer.h> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------