Comments on: Making the case for PHP

By: Tibo Beijen

Tibo Beijen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:04:24 +0000

The open culture of the PHP community is highly appreciated by the community itself but my feeling is that a great part of the enterprise level businesses are a bit more conservative.

They tend to stick to .NET or java because of partnerships with companies like Microsoft and IBM and the of course the ‘certification circus’. As I’ve seen it described elsewhere: It’s a ‘different eco-system’. For PHP there is just less black-on-white ‘proof of quaility’ (note the quotes) to judge possible suppliers and employees by.

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Davey Shafik’s Blog: Making the case for PHP | Webs Developer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:01:07 +0000

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By: Sherif Mansour

Sherif Mansour — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:52:38 +0000

Great write-up. I had to go through something similar in an organisation recently – PHP vs Java. Agree on your comments its not “vs”. You made some good points there.

There other point I’d like to bring to the table is something I like to call “the right technology for the right solution”.

If you were going to build an application with an estimated 500 rows – why would you use Oracle? Its a bloated solution that might be “overkill for what you need”. You might use something like MySQL or even SQLite.

The same thoughts apply to the application layer. Java – powerful – very much so. But if i wanted a simple application to display the results of a table, I might use a scripting language, like PHP/Python. If I wanted to build an application that needed to be multi-threaded, I’d use Java.

So its not just because there are lots of developers in PHP (or whatever it might be), It’s also making sure we use the right technology for the right solution.

Sherif