On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> > Maybe Zend has some feedback from their enterprise clients on
> > what features are requested, etc.
>
> It would be great to hear if anyone else has had a chance to play with the
> new Microsoft toys.
>
As a PHP contributor and long-time user, I can say that if our company was
starting over right now, .NET would win hands down in terms of suiting our
needs (engineering-side), as a web application development company.
This wasn't the case with a Java application framework, many of which were
available when our company was choosing its platform.
PHP has some advantages over a language like C#. However, my impressions from
following this list for the last year have been that it is not being evolved
towards medium-to-large application builders, but still towards people writing
"web sites" or simple scripts. We're trying to change this with binarycloud,
but still, we're spending countless hours reinventing what ASP.NET would give
you for free (or rather in exchange for selling your soul to microsoft).
I don't mean to be unfair. Breaking backwards compatibility would be required
in many many cases in order for PHP to evolve in that sense, and as long as
most people don't want it to happen, it probably shouldn't happen. That's a
significant cost to incur and something new frameworks/languages don't have to
worry about.
John
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