Posted by "Dan Baker" on 08/22/05 23:52

"Rick Emery" <rick@emery.homelinux.net> wrote in message
news:20050822141632.zt8ggnk0nxwc8sko@www.emery.homelinux.net...
> Quoting Rick Emery <rick@emery.homelinux.net>:
>
>> My employer has (finally) decided to take full advantage of our intranet,
>> and wants to move from client-server applications to web-based
>> applications.
>
> [snipped]
>
>> Any input would be greatly appreciated. Opinions are welcome (especially
>> from programmers with experience in both), but I have to "sell" it to
>> management (I'm already on the PHP side), so links to data or articles
>> comparing the two are best.
>
> Ugh, we're *never* going to make a decision. My boss just sent me this
> email:
[snipped]
> Anybody care to provide words of wisdom to me before I meet with her? I
> hate doing this, as I'm sure everybody has better things to do, but I
> *really* want to sell PHP.

<Background Info>
I've been programming since around 1974. I've been using PHP for the past 5
(or so) years. I've always used PHP in conjunction with a MySQL database.
I've used PHP/MySQL for two public websites, that are still running nicely
today.
</Background Info>

I'm currently using PHP/MySQL for an internal-use-only database. Some of
the statistics of this internal-website are as follows:

The actual PHP source code is over 668KB in size.
There are 50 tables in the database, using over 4MB of disk space.
The largest table has over 20,000 records in it.
In the past week, MySQL has had the following stats:
471MB of traffic
500,000 queries

This internal-website is used by our customer service center, as well as our
Sales team. It is easy to maintain or upgrade.

DanB

PS: The application we sell is written in C++.

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