On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:30, Paul A Houle wrote: > PHP's market position is as a product that any idiot can download > and install, just following the instructions, and get a system with > good reliability and performance -- a painful phase of shaking out > threading bugs would endanger that perception.
That looks a lot like Windows' market position. And I suspect it's no accident: both products have heaped on new 'goodies', all too often at the expense of other considerations. It's IMO also no accident that PHP is moving towards a Windows-like security track record. Which leads me to pose the question: can and should the PHP folks learn anything from how Microsoft are dealing with their tarnished image? And even, how closely should we @apache be watching, lest we ourselves stray from the straight-and-narrow and find ourselves at the wrong end of a bunch of real-life exploits, and/or get tarnished by fallout from elsewhere? -- Nick Kew
