I agree with Rob. If your team and project have a significant investment in .NET, then use .NET. If you're in the minority, and the rest of the team are .NET advocates, then suck it up and learn .NET.
The cost of re-tooling, re-training, and adjusting your team's culture to the new language and framework is so expensive that it'll probably cancel out any productivity advantage the other technology may have. An organization should switch technologies only if there is some compelling benefit, such as a required capability that the new language can do easily, but which is grievous or simply impossible in the old language. One can make arguments about minor technical advantages PHP & ZF may have over .NET. But I don't think there is any such point that could be called "compelling" (except with respect to specific project goals). So the non-technical arguments should be the deciding factors, such as those regarding licences, cost, and team culture. Regards, Bill Karwin > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [fw-general] .Net or Zend Framework? > > 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... >
