rogeson wrote: > This is of course a no-brainer to me, but my current task is to convince the > company I work for to build our next product using the Zend Framework > instead of .Net, and there are a lot of .Net enthusiasts here. > > Does anybody have any good arguments as to how and why using PHP and the > Zend Framework is a superior choice to .Net? Has anybody had convince their > organization of the same sort of thing?
For me, it would depend on the team. You can build great web projects in .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, Lisp and even Ruby. If my team knew .NET inside out, then I'd build the product using .NET and vice-versa for PHP. It's expensive to throw away all your code, experience and knowledge of one language for the promise of greener grass. A more complicated question is should a PHP shop which has it's own set of libraries & glue framework move to the Zend Framework? This is much harder to answer due to having to weigh the cost of losing the investment in your current solution against the possible benefits of more productivity and less bugs due proper separation of concerns. Regards, Rob...
