Robert J. Cissell wrote: > Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever compiled an extensive point-by-point > comparison of the advantages of LAMP vs. the other alternatives? If not, > I'd be interested in starting something along those lines. That would be > helpful to many people I think, so anyone who has ideas on what specifically > to compare, ie learning curves, license fees, performance, etc, please email > me with them, and we can put together a comprehensive document which will be > beneficial to all of us. > > Robert >
If you get something, please share it. I suspect that pretty much anything you compile will be akin to a religious war no matter what, because once you get past licensing costs, everything else is fairly subjective. "learning curve" is a huge one. ANYONE can be up in a few days with ASP, CF, PHP, whatever. And some people can be very proficient quickly in each, but it depends on your background. VB people will flock to ASP, C people will go to PHP, etc. Each side claims 'learning curve' benefits, and it's pretty much hogwash, imo - you can learn something easier if you're already familiar with something else that's similar. You will most likely end up preaching to the choir. :) The eweek article from Oct 2000 showed PHP beating CF - PHP being about 95% fast if I recall, and in price. But the editors awarded CF 'top choice' because of 'ease of development'. Personally, I'd skip the CF licensing and pay someone a bit more to learn PHP or Perl and have a better grasp on what they're doing ($=incentive) in most cases, but hey, I'm not eweek. CF must be *REALLY* easy to develop to justify that cost. So, you can generally show LAMP to be faster and cheaper than most alternatives for *most* web projects (leaving aside the one "high-end" example someone would always throw in). Faster and cheaper - anecdotally fewer stability issues. Of course there's no 'scientific' proof (which MS would demand) so you're stuck with anecdotes - but there are hundreds of thousands of anecdotes of LAMP stability to choose from - I've got several if you want them. :) In the end it'll come down to religion and a price/performance argument, and religion will win more often than not (but hopefully that's changing!) Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com/php PHP Training Courses 734-480-9961 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
