We may never know ... the web site that supposedly has the full original is still down. Maybe a CGI is serving the articles. 8-)

In the rebuttal, he/she contrasts CGI with J2EE. If his assertion is that the article is too dated to account for mod_perl and fast CGI, then I'd assert that a comparison to J2EE is also unfair. Let's instead compare the alternatives at the time the article was written.

I can't help myself ... I love a good debate. 8-)