> On the enterprise side of things, is anyone using PHP for enterprise-wide
> applications? If not, why not?
Not only because I don't do enterprise-wide applications but also because
scalability in PHP is very limited, no support for cluster etc...
PHP is a very nice and still young tool, that is getting better, but, again,
if you look at it, you can see that, for example, that session variables
were added just on PHP 4, less than a year ago, and the way they works
doesn't lend itself very well to scalability...
As for me, 80% of my job on web applications is about small websites where I
use CF and Access and rely on hosting companies for a decent service at
20-30$ a month. A crucial point for me to keep using CF instead of ASP (as
the vast majority of my competitors) is that it doesn't add any additional
costs for hosting if compared to ASP.
The other 20% of my job is about larger apps, with SQL Server and CF, there
some additional costs in hosting shouldn't cause me too much troubles, right
now I am in the 50-100$ range, and my larger customers can live with it,
maybe even with something more, but this is true only for the larger
customers, higher costs on ISPs could easily make me move the smaller apps
to a Unix/PHP/MySql solution, definitely cheap, not that easy to handle for
my junior coworkers but also with some advantages (Unix stability, for most
things MySql ways better than Access, great choice on ISPs).
Well, I was learning PHP/MySql anyway, I think I will never stop loving CF,
but I hope I will not see ISP's dropping support for it or asking too much
money, in meantime, I will wait to see how things evolve.
I live in a very small region (the italian part of Switzerland) where the
vast majority of customers are local, small size companies, but I don't
think I am alone in a similar scenario, depending a lot on the kind of
hosting services ISPs can offer.
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