Posted by Treefrog on 05/04/06 17:39

Nate Baxley wrote:
> I'm working to convince my office to make the switch to PHP from ASP.
> I've convinced them that some change needs to be made, but I think
> there is some hesitation about PHP being too non-corporate.

How a company who is still using ASP can consider PHP as non-corporate
is laughable.

>Can anyone
> give examples of big companies that are using PHP for real business?

I've worked as a PHP developer since 2000. The companies I've worked
for have all been involved with "real business", which is handy since I
insist on getting paid in real money.

> I remember hearing that Yahoo! used it, but that was several years ago.
> Anything you can send would be great.

My current company use PHP explicitly. I can't (wont) say who we are
from this address, but +£10k per hour in business goes through our PHP
code, which runs over approx 30 servers and is used by clients in
countries all over the world, which means it deals with exotic
character sets and date/time issues too.

However, I am by no stretch suggesting that we are a big company, there
are many much larger companies using PHP.

What other platforms are you considering, what kind of application are
you developing?
You have to consider your existing developers, they're used coding
against a MS platform, PHP is very different. Also, what database(s)
are you currently using, is it easy to change?

You need to get away from ASP, that's for certain, but it might be
wiser to head for ASP.net. I suppose it depends on how much "platform
intertia" your dev team shows.

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