The license fees I referred to in my post was that of DB2, not JSP. I'm aware of JDBC, but I was just using the most likely database to be used.

The focus of my previous post was to point out usability of 2 typical scripting languages in mainstream enviroments. I was trying to make the point that PHP/MySQL performance do not match those of JSP/DB2. Moreover, neither do those of JSP/JDBC/MySQL or any other SQL databse for that matter.