Posted by Lew on 11/21/07 02:02

Lew wrote:
>> At some point one has to assert that the platform is fast enough,
>> and look for other criteria to choose the right one.

NC wrote:
> Indeed. And one of these factors just happens to be licensing cost.
> And that's where PHP (and, I might add, Python) shine, as they can be
> deployed on an open-source software stack.

Many Java-based systems, including one of the benchmark leaders now for Java
EE server apps, have the same licensing cost as you describe for the PHP /
Python case. They can also integrate Python in the mix, should one so desire.

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Lew

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