Posted by Treefrog on 05/09/06 09:53

Nate Baxley wrote:
>Saddly we have to be prepared
> for clients second guessing our technical decisions occasionaly.

Clients thinking they know better? I don't believe that for a moment!
:p

> Anyway, thanks again for all of the input and if you have any other
> "well known" brands using PHP, keep posting them. It's nice to see
> this "little" language being used so prevelantly.

I mean no offence, but you sound like you're posting via
timemachine.google.com, set back to 2002.
Back then I could understand this question/argument but it's blatantly
obvious that the landscape has changed much since then; ASP is long
since dead, ASP.net as a firm hold and PHP is a mature language, but
evolving very quickly. If you want to see how professional PHP is now,
take a look at the trade shows. There are some very big names using
and/or investing in the technology.

Also, and here's where I'm probably going to offend you, although I
genuinely don't mean to.... if you don't think your team has the
skillset for ASP.net then you must have either very good sales people,
or clueless clients.

There's a serious point there, if your team doesn't have the ability to
code properly (in which case learning c# syntax would not be a concern)
then your PHP code is going to turn out like a "lunchtime hackers"
project. The platform is, without doubt, capable of running complex
applications in very professional environments, if your developers
aren't then there's no point in going through all the hassle of moving
platform from ASP to PHP because you just wont notice the difference.

Send your devs on a training course, or at least get them zend
certified (it's very cheap).

> Nate

Goodluck,

Nat (without the e ;o)

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