|  | Posted by Colin McKinnon on 06/16/05 17:19 
thehuby wrote:
 > Because PHP  is extremely easy to program (though I am a JSP developer
 > not a .NET one) in comparison.  It also has, far and away (IMHO) the
 > best resources and open source material on the internet - someone has
 > already done most of the hard work for you if you are any good at using
 > Google :)
 >
 <snip>
 >
 > I'm a JSP developer predominantly but have really come to appreciate
 > PHP - things are so easy in it that for small scale apps it is a good
 > choice.  I also think that people overplay the performance issues - if
 > you have a good dedicated server for PHP it is not going to be much
 > different in speed than a JSP or .NET server.
 >
 
 Define scale.
 
 In terms of dealing with huge volumes of throughput, PHP scales much more
 easily across a cluster than JSP (no RMI overhead). It's just a matter of
 throwing more iron at the problem. If you're Google, then hardware cost
 will outweigh programmer time, but if you're Google you probably won't be
 using JSP/ASP either.
 
 > If you want to start looking at larger scale apps then I would suggest
 > JSP/J2EE and .NET offer a better framework for developing, but not
 > because of performance - having precomiled classes & webpages as well
 > as strong typing mean that run time errors are much less likely to
 > happen.
 >
 
 I think we had this debate already.
 
 C.
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