IIS Vs Tomcat

IIS was developed by Microsoft for use in its NT OS that is intended for mainframes and web servers. It is currently considered as the second most popular web server in use today; second only to Apache. Despite being behind in standings, Microsoft has been gradually developing IIS along with its companion programs SQL Server and Silverlight which are both from Microsoft. These programs along with Microsoft’s .Net Framework and the familiarity of most people to the Windows operating system makes IIS a very compelling web server choice. But in order to run Java and JSP programs on their server, users would need to install server program from its competitor; the Tomcat.

Tomcat was the name given to the open source Java/JSP server that was developed by Apache to work in tandem with their own web server. Tomcat is undoubtedly the best in what it does partly because its only competition, JRun, has been problematic to most users. It is also very popular with most developers due to the simple fact that it is free and there is a lot of support from the open source community.