Posted by NC on 05/05/06 01:38

Nate Baxley wrote:
>
> I'm working to convince my office to make the switch
> to PHP from ASP.

In order to convince anyone to choose one technology over next, you
need a good set of reasons. You need to compare performance, cost, and
time to market (not necessarily in that order). Since you provided no
details as to what you currently using ASP for, no case can be made for
either switching or not switching.

> I've convinced them that some change needs to be made,
> but I think there is some hesitation about PHP being too
> non-corporate.

What exactly do you mean by "non-corporate"? Inexpensive and easy to
use? That's an advantage. No corporate entity that controls the
product? It's Zend...

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

How do you define "real business"? Is Friendster with 27+ million
active users "real business" or not?

> I remember hearing that Yahoo! used it, but that was several
> years ago.

They still do. Michael Radwin keeps giving talks about it at various
conferences:

http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/

Most recent of them, actually, was delivered about a week ago at MySQL
User Conference...

Cheers,
NC

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