Yes, I agree .. sounds like they went with open source only .. which is fine . but it also isn't an "official" Yahoo page either ... so I wouldn't let it hold too much water.
Paul Giesenhagen QuillDesign ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:20 PM Subject: RE: Yahoo moving to PHP > There must be more to their choices then the slides reveal. > > They say... > * They didn't go with CF because its syntax is ugly. > * They didn't go with ASP because it requires Windows. > * They didn't go with Java because it required threads and > FreeBSD doesn't really like threads. > > All of the above sounds pretty retarded. > > Matt Liotta > President & CEO > Montara Software, Inc. > http://www.montarasoftware.com/ > 888-408-0900 x901 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Densmore [mailto:ben_densmore@;esupport.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:13 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP > > > > Check it out, in their presentation for why they chose PHP, they make > > reference as to why they didn't go with CF or ASP > > > > > > > > http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm > > > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm

