a company sells desktop software and also servers that is able to run "wrapper" programs generated by the individual UI program.
my question is, how are these proprietary, domain specific servers made ? are they actually Apache + CentOS ?
how would you go about building such servers built specifically for your software or can communicate with only your software ? why do companies do this ? isn't it more efficient to simply usse web servers like Apache + MySQL ?
also, is this why Java Enterprise Edition is popular ? does Java technology have a way to create my own servers dedicated to the application i have built ?
is developing on Java platform common for enterprise software ?