Few interesting facts about web applications performace

Difference in speed of data transfer into Intranet and Internet is the same, as difference between speed of airplain and pedestrian.

When you work with low-speed network, using 4-tier architectures is more prefferable than using 3-tier. Why - becouse forming of presentation layer is take place on server.

For any range of fpplication, IIOP about 10 times faster, than SOAP.

In 80% of all cases this difference is too small, to be visible for end-users of web application.