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Re: Why PHP? [message #180690 is a reply to message #180669]

Sun, 10 March 2013 15:45

Arno Welzel
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Robert Heller, 2013-03-08 20:53:

> At Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:53:00 +0000 The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/03/13 17:11, Martin Leese wrote:
>>> clayjar(at)gmail(dot)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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		Why PHP? By: clayjar on Fri, 08 March 2013 07:14
		Re: Why PHP? By: Michael Vilain on Fri, 08 March 2013 09:03
		Re: Why PHP? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 08 March 2013 13:45
		Re: Why PHP? By: Martin Leese on Fri, 08 March 2013 17:11
		Re: Why PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 08 March 2013 18:53
		Re: Why PHP? By: Robert Heller on Fri, 08 March 2013 19:53
		Re: Why PHP? By: Richard Yates on Sat, 09 March 2013 23:41
		Re: Why PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 10 March 2013 00:06
		Re: Why PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 10 March 2013 15:45
		Re: Why PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 10 March 2013 16:54
		Re: Why PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 10 March 2013 18:43
		Re: Why PHP? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 10 March 2013 20:51
		Re: Why PHP? By: Christoph Becker on Sun, 10 March 2013 20:59
		Re: Why PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Thu, 14 March 2013 19:15
		Re: Why PHP? By: M. Strobel on Thu, 14 March 2013 22:50
		Re: Why PHP? By: J.O. Aho on Fri, 08 March 2013 17:37
		Re: Why PHP? By: clayjar on Sat, 09 March 2013 05:38
		Re: Why PHP? By: Michael Vilain on Sat, 09 March 2013 06:06
		Re: Why PHP? By: clayjar on Sat, 09 March 2013 05:46
		Re: Why PHP? By: J.O. Aho on Sat, 09 March 2013 11:22
		Re: Why PHP? By: daveh on Sat, 09 March 2013 14:13
		Re: Why PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 09 March 2013 15:22

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