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Posted by Hywel Jenkins on 08/25/05 23:32
In article <bspPe.5836$iM2.575630@news.xtra.co.nz>,
winandwaves@coldmail.com says...
> Hi Gurus
>
> I know this is an html group, but I am sure many of you do web development
> work that goes beyond html.
>
> I was wondering what you think works best.
> - PHP
> - Java something
> - .net
> - Mysql vs SQL vs Postgres (or whatever these databases are called)
> - etc...
>
> I only do php and mysql, but recently someone told me that these are
> hopelessly out of date compared to, for example, dot.net.
>
> Personally, I believe that it does not matter, that we will never use all
> the potential anyway and that it is more important to know something well
> and your actual ideas, the the languages are much of a muchness...
>
> What do you think?
What are your career ambitions? Do you want to be doing trivial little
web sites for the rest of your life, or do you want to give enterprise-
level application development a shot? If it's the latter, you'll need
more than PHP and MySQL. A recent survey indicates that the take-up of
PHP is declining as businesses head for Java and/or .Net applications.
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Hywel
http://kibo.org.uk/
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