fyi .. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rompies [mailto:mark@;nawala.com] > Sent: 01 Nopember 2002 6:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [kpli] Yahoo akhirnya pake PHP > > > Sumber: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963937.html?tag=lh > > Yahoo shifts to open-source scripting > ===================================== > > By Paul Festa > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > October 30, 2002, 1:11 PM PT > > With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo has decided to > jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favor of > the open-source alternative PHP. > > The scripting switch will affect the way Yahoo creates a wide > array of features and functions, from serving advertisements > to designing applications like its calendar and e-mail applications. > > While Yahoo won't rewrite pages that currently use the > proprietary language, the shift will ultimately affect > virtually every Yahoo page and reflects a broader development > philosophy toward open-source technologies. > > People reading Yahoo's pages and using its applications are > unlikely to notice a difference between proprietary scripts > and those written in PHP, a project of the Apache Software > Foundation. Apache's open-source software leads the market, > serving just more than half of the world's Web sites, > according to Netcraft. > > But Yahoo's rationale for making the switch to the > open-source PHP provides both a technical look behind the > scenes of one of the Web's largest and most trafficked Web > sites and a clearer picture of its ongoing adherence to the > open-source ideology. > > Since Yahoo started relying heavily on scripted Web page > features six years ago, it has used its own homegrown > scripting language, yScript. Similarly, the company started > out with company co-founder David Filo's own Web server, > before switching to Apache in 1996. > > But as the cost and effort of maintaining the proprietary > scripting language rose, and as the quality of the > open-source alternative improved, Yahoo saw that its > homegrown scripting method was becoming more trouble than it > was worth. > > While programming languages inspire heated allegiances among > developers, Yahoo insists its primary motivation is the bottom line. > > The cost challenge > ------------------ > > Yahoo "is a cheap company," Yahoo engineer Michael Radwin > wrote in his presentation notes for PHPCon 2002 last week. > Citing the general economic downturn of the past two years, > he added that Yahoo "can't afford to waste engineering resources." > > Radwin pointed to both the costs of maintaining a proprietary > language like yScript and the challenge of keeping a site of > Yahoo's size and traffic running. > > yScript is a "pain in the neck to maintain and use," Radwin > wrote. Like any language specific to one company or site, > yScript incurs additional training costs for engineers and > designers and additional costs for the language's ongoing > maintenance, and it poses difficulties in integrating the > language with third-party software, authoring tools, and > content management systems. > > Yahoo declined to comment on its use of PHP beyond its > released statement. "With recent advances in PHP, we have > decided to adopt it for some of our new developments, in > preference to some of our internally developed technologies," > the ocmpany said in the statement. > > One analyst lauded the move, saying that for a company of > Yahoo's age and size, the switch from proprietary to open > source makes sense. > > "Many of the larger organizations, the Yahoos of the world, > were around before a lot of the open-source technologies > emerged and standards were in place," said Stephen O'Grady, > an analyst with Illuminata. "The best thing to do was to > invent their own. But that presents problems down the road in > terms of training, in terms of maintenance, and in terms of > keeping up with newer trends. Open source evolves to meet > customer needs." > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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