Re: Why PHP?

From	Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Why PHP?
Date	2013-03-10 16:45 +0100
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Robert Heller, 2013-03-08 20:53:

> At Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:53:00 +0000 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 08/03/13 17:11, Martin Leese wrote:
>>> clayjar@gmail.com wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> A particular individual on the C# team likes the word "enterprise" a
>>>> lot and still believes PHP to be a mere toy that kids play around with
>>>> to build Personal Home Pages.
>>> ...
>>>> I'm sincerely asking the PHP community here to point me to some
>>>> objective materials to help convince my (very pro-Microsoft) coworker
>>>> and our boss that LAMP stack is a VERY viable alternative to other
>>>> proprietary platforms.
>>>
>>> Facebook is implemented in PHP.
>>>
>> Is that a recommendation or a dis-recommendation?
> 
> Well Facebook is certainly an enterprise operation and is very
> profitable, which suggest that PHP is not a "toy".  Facebook has a huge
> user base and seems to manage quite well.  This suggests that LAMP
> servers scale well.

Well - Facebook has enough money to run *many* servers. I think in this
case it is nearly irrelevant if they use PHP, C# or whatever - as long
as the backend (database, storage etc.) is capable of handling the load.



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Thread

Why PHP? clayjar@gmail.com - 2013-03-07 23:14 -0800
  Re: Why PHP? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-03-08 01:03 -0800
  Re: Why PHP? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-08 08:45 -0500
  Re: Why PHP? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-03-08 10:11 -0700
    Re: Why PHP? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-08 18:53 +0000
      Re: Why PHP? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-03-08 13:53 -0600
        Re: Why PHP? Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2013-03-09 15:41 -0800
          Re: Why PHP? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-10 00:06 +0000
        Re: Why PHP? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-03-10 16:45 +0100
          Re: Why PHP? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-10 16:54 +0000
            Re: Why PHP? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-03-10 19:43 +0100
            Re: Why PHP? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-10 16:51 -0400
          Re: Why PHP? Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-03-10 21:59 +0100
            Re: Why PHP? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-03-14 20:15 +0100
              Re: Why PHP? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-14 23:50 +0100
  Re: Why PHP? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-03-08 18:37 +0100
  Re: Why PHP? clayjar@gmail.com - 2013-03-08 21:38 -0800
    Re: Why PHP? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-03-08 22:06 -0800
  Re: Why PHP? clayjar@gmail.com - 2013-03-08 21:46 -0800
    Re: Why PHP? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-03-09 12:22 +0100
  Re: Why PHP? David Heller <daveh@allheller.net> - 2013-03-09 06:13 -0800
  Re: Why PHP? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-03-09 16:22 +0100

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