Hi, One of my friends is moving forward on a very serious e-commerce portal (startup). Just as an example / illustration - something like say any of the typical largest online shopping stores Initial estimates are typically average peak #no of records to search 100,000 500,000 #no of users online 1,000 5,000 #no of transactions per hour 10,000 50,000 #no of actual commerce gateway transaction per hour 1,000 5,000 Possibly the above details are sketchy but the immediate questions for him to firm up investment plans are: - Will a Pharo based platform be appropriate -- Technology ? -- Robustness & support ? - what will be the team man year effort (ballpark estimate) for development, testing, administration upto initial go-live ? Could folks just throw any pointers to help in investment estimation and evaluation Are any references of similar projects available in Pharo at this time ? regards Sanjay ----- --- Regards, Sanjay -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-as-a-platform-for-a-large-E-Commerce-website-tp4... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.