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Re: Why PHP? [message #180672 is a reply to message #180670] Sat, 09 March 2013 06:06 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In article <4628d3d3-ea23-4be2-825a-7090a04bef0d(at)googlegroups(dot)com>,
clayjar(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:

> It may be more helpful to me if you could state the number of years of
> experience in which development environment. The collective experience found
> here is much weightier than what I can put on the table on my own. I'd like
> to use your opinions if you don't object to that. I've formed the analysis
> document into categories of "Proprietary vs. Open Source", "Windows vs.
> Linux", "IIS vs. Apache", "SQL Server vs. MySQL", "C# vs. PHP". Basically, it
> comes down to a philosophical issue, and yes, I have my development tent
> pitched on a free software philosophy. I'm also hesitant about taking this
> route to form a persuasive presentation, because as many of you already
> mentioned, the competency of the team along with the factor of learning
> curves are major determinants than other things.
>
> We are trying to take a long view approach to deal with the sustainability of
> our own development team, and it's unquestionably clear that open source
> approach is the way to go for us given the budget and many restraints that
> are in place, however, there have been years of mismanagement, thus producing
> an untenable environment that is merely being maintained at status quo simply
> to avoid hurting people's feelings. Our software products are becoming more
> important in the overall strategy as we are growing rapidly. As someone
> already had also mentioned, in a university setting, there is indeed a large
> overhead, mostly associated with politics. Sometimes, my stomach churns when
> I start pondering about the amount of tax money we've burnt through simply to
> maintain a status quo on a crap software. All these so-called managers get
> away with it all, topped off posh benefits with degrees and undeserved,
> illusory prestige.

30 years ago, I took an internal project management class when I was
working for DEC. The first day, the instructor did the typical
intro--goals of the class, who's here, why, and what they want to cover,
and her qualifications. Then she put this slide up:

PHASES OF A PROJECT

1. ENTHUSIASM
2. DISILLUSIONMENT
3. PANIC
4. SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
5. PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT
6. PRAISE AND HONORS FOR THE NON-PARTICIPANTS

Over the years, I've not see this model change. Ever. It's like
running something akin to a rational orderly project that gets it's
deliverables in on time and budget are not part of the corporate or
government culture. You're obviously somewhere between #4, #5, and #6
here.

I suspect that whatever happens and whatever direction this project
goes, it won't be on technical merits. But there I go, being a cynic
again.

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