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Message: [QUOTE="Charles O Nutter, post: 4526580"] It seems like you're just guessing at these. I don't know all of them, but I know for certain that eBay is running a crapload of Java in their backend. In fact, they used to be a solid ASP site (pre-.NET) but switched to Java because the ASP stuff scaled horribly. IBM made a big media event out of that a few years back. I mean really, the site has Sun/Java branding right at the top...so it's probably safe to assume Java's involved. It's also extremely subjective to "look at what the site uses" because I know for a fact many large Java-based sites use URLs showing something other than ".jsp", for reasons that are perhaps obvious. And there's another large chunk of sites that use PHP or .NET or what have you for web-facing stuff while the vast majority of their apps are actually backed by large Java clusters behind some variety of service layer. It would probably be better to leave the guesses off the list completely and not try to draw any conclusions at all. Unless you really know what these sites are using (a difficult prospect at best) no conclusions are possible. [/QUOTE]