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The following excerpt is from Xamplify's web page of August 03, 2001 (see reference at bottom)
Architectural Highlights
J2EE Architecture
The X-Seller is written in 100% pure Java and encapsulated in Enterprise JavaBeans to ensure full cross-platform compatibility and to facilitate scalability. It has been developed on a Solaris 7 platform on Sun hardware, using BEA WebLogic 5.1 as a container for the EJBs.
Instant Integration with Enterprise & Legacy Systems
The X-Seller is designed to integrate into current systems with minimal engineering costs. Typical technical installation times range from 1-3 days, and consists mostly of standard HTTP calls to the X-Seller system.
System Requirements
- Two Enterprise-level machines (Sun Solaris E400 series, NT equivalent) in a cluster configuration with dual-module redundancies and SCSII disk arrays for high performance, fail-safe operation for hosting the X-Seller batch pooling server
- A fully licensed, BEA Weblogic application server (or equivalent) to support EJB container management
- HTTP/HTTPS or low-level socket communications enabled between the XDS servers and the CIV servers
- A fully licensed, relational DB server (Oracle, Sybase) with a standard enterprise configuration
- A fully licensed, OLAP server or data visualization tool (Visual Mining, Crystal Reports)
Integration Architecture
The Xamplify X-Seller is implemented in a pure JAVA, J2EE-compliant architecture. It is platform independent (requires machines to have a JVM) and communicates with 3rd-party software through an open JAVA-based API and 3rd-party product-specific software adapters. These adapters are written by Xamplify on a 3rd-party platform using their API to allow full-duplex communications between the Profiler and other systems. Using these adapters, the X-Seller can either act as a Client or Server, depending on the specific business need.
My Comments: Sumer Johal, based on my personal interactions with him and cursory checking of his background, didn't seem to have much knowledge of statistics. Similarly, his programming skills seemed limited based on his limited industry experience and talent. I will admit that he seemed to know lots of computer jargon which proved that his education at MIT was not a complete waste. He spent lots of time in guiding developers to design interfaces for the company's products but those beautiful interfaces could not hide the fact that the product was without any non-trivial analytical engine. (Note: It is possible that Robert Burnett had some hand in the above description.
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Xamplify's Web Page in August, 2001