Best of breed

MLB.com's chief technology officer Joe Choti says he takes a best-of-breed approach with technology. He also prefers to build his own applications. Under the hood of MLB.com is hardware and software from Sun Microsystems, running on Oracle databases. Most applications are built on Java. Akamai is MLB.com's delivery platform. Tibco, Quova and SAS are also key vendors. On game days, MLB.com can see 20 million to 50 million page views an hour. Overall, MLB.com garners about 4 million unique users a day.