I like this view. It's not so much a technology we're all speaking as much
as a language. Computers are computers and while linux is fun and kick's ass
sometimes you just need to get a job done. 

tools are tools and php rules until php rules!


john l

>> It's hard, I think in part, because of the reputation PHP is 
>> getting in 
>> some circles.  Many of the people evangelizing it don't know anything 
>> else, and simply extoll all the 'wonderful' virtues of it. 
> 
> YES! This "poisoning of the well" has happened and continues to happen.
> The problem is that being an evangelist is a wonderful thing-- but you
> have to be quite skilled at communication to be a successful one :)
> Otherwise the person attempting to spread the gospel simply becomes
> looked at as an annoyance or, worse, becomes marginalized.
> 
> I have dealt with a lot of folks in companies who have a negative view
> of PHP, MySQL, Linux, BSD, etc. simply because they have had their
> intelligence insulted, or been irritated, or been completely confused,
> or been preached to one too many times by well-meaning proponents of
> Open Source solutions who are either unable to communicate or simply
> victim to their own enthusiasm.
> 
> There is probably nothing that doesn't have an Open Source solution in
> the abstract sense-- but in the real world of existing systems,
> personnel, and politics, the best solution may not be technically the
> fastest or even the most stable. The right tool for the job is my
> motto, and that might mean SQL Server, it might mean MySQL. It might
> mean a Linux server, it might mean Win2K. There is no single panacea.
> 
> c
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