On a fairly regular basis, we're asked how Flux is different than one of the large, enterprise-class job schedulers like AutoSys and CONTROL-M. The short answer is: apples and oranges.



Is someone on your team doing Java development?

Answer Yes: an embeddable Java job scheduler is the lightweight solution I would use.

Answer No: a stand-alone job scheduler server like AutoSys, CONTROL-M, etc is the heavyweight solution I would use.

I've written a short technical article that addresses this topic. I hope you find it useful if you're sorting out whether you should use an embeddable, lightweight Java job scheduler like Flux or a stand-alone, heavyweight job scheduler server like CONTROL-M or AutoSys.

What's your opinion? Leave a comment or call me on skype at flux.david