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Posted by Oujdeivί on 02/12/06 06:17
You forgot the AS400 man, how can you forget the AS400! If you want
power, growth, and 9, 9's of uptime (99.999999%) , look no further!
:)
I love AS400s with HTTP Server (powered by Apache), I think it almost
kills IBM to admit that they are running apache :)
AS400 + Apache + PHP + DB2 = kick a$$ fun :)
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-database-db2
If Linux on WinTel/ISA hardware = 1/2 ton pickup, then AS400 = those
mini mall sized dump trucks they use at strip mines.
Nothing boring about those :)
p.d.
NC wrote:
> Brad wrote:
>> I know this is a tired debate, but I need to hear something not
>> so Microsoft or anti-Micosoft biased. I need to decide which
>> to use in a short amount of time.
>
> You are putting the carriage way ahead of the horse... The choice of
> scripting language should be the last one after you chose the operating
> system, the HTTP server, and the database engine... Once you know what
> OS, HTTP server, and DB engine you want, the choice of scripting
> language becomes obvious or nearly obvious.
>
>> I'm an ASP.NET developer and don't know squat about PHP.
>
> Then stick with what you know best and don't make important decisions
> on the basis of what other people tell you.
>
>> - Is there anyone who has used both *proficiently* enough
>> to give me a balanced answer?
>
> Probably not, especiallly considering the fact you are not willing to
> pay for advice. :)
>
>> - What are the pros and cons of both?
>
> ASP works well on (quite expensive) all-Microsoft software stack. PHP
> can be deployed on top of open-source software stack (Linux or
> BSD/Apache/MySQL). So, realistically, by switching away from
> Microsoft, you save money on software and thus can afford better
> hardware, which gives your application performance an otherwise
> unattainable boost. You can also use PHP on virtually any commercial
> Unix system (Solaris, HP-UX, etc.); PHP works with many commercial
> database systems (most importantly for this discussion, with Oracle).
>
>> Is APACHE/PHP/MySQL scalable to 1 million visitors/mo?
>
> Definitely. Friendster, for example, has 24 million users. The first
> version of the site was written in JSP with MySQL back-end, but
> eventually they had to dump JSP and rewrite the site in PHP for
> performance reasons.
>
>> - How does that compare to IIS/ASP.NET/ADO.NET/SQL Server?
>
> It depends. If you want to run the entire application on a single
> physical machine, IIS/ASP/SQL Server will be pretty hard to beat. If,
> however, you plan on deploying multiple physical machines and
> separating content servers from DB servers, no technology will give you
> a guaranteed edge; everything will depend on how skilled you are at
> fine-tuning your servers, how well your load balancing works, etc.
>
>> - How do the programming models compare?
>
> They don't. PHP does not have a single programming model. Suffice it
> to say that PHP still supports procedural programming; in most cases it
> is possible to write an entire application without invoking a single
> object.
>
>> - How do exception handling and debugging compare?
>
> Exception handling is only available in PHP 5. PHP 4 does not have a
> concept of exception; it deals with errors...
>
> As to debugging, it depends on what IDE you use. ASP.Net developers
> are by virtue of being married to Visual Studio .Net. With PHP, you
> have many options...
>
>> - What about caching? Does PHP have a similar concept?
>
> Caching of WHAT? MySQL supports query caching; for caching output, you
> can use a caching proxy server, such as Squid...
>
>> I know ASP.NET quite well, so if you compare both side-by-side
>> it will help me determine if you're observations are reliable or if
>> they are biased.
>
> One thing that could be a potential turn-off for you is the fact that
> PHP does not have an equivalent of the Application object; different
> instances of an application can only communicate via file system,
> databases, or shared memory...
>
> Cheers,
> NC
>
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