Php scales and is cross platform. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php_scalability.html
Java scales and essentially equivalent to Dot Net. The big difference between java and Dot Net is Java is a little more mature, more widely used, and run on Linux, Mac, Solaris, and about everything else, and its free. Also, perl and python scale and are cross platform. You might also take a look a Ruby on Rail as an application foundation. It uses AJAX which is good. There are a number of other AJAX application foundations that are commercial as well. Many large companies that develop all their software in house have taken advantage of the open source opportunity to add to their bottom line by reducing expenses while maintaining commercial grade quality. Advantages of open source are: It is free. The source code is made available, so application can easily be modified by a user. Also, security is increased when the source code is made available to everyone, so bug are spotted more quickly, and fixed more rapidly. Many commercial applications are developed using free open source software like perl, php, python, and Ruby on Rails, Also, many commercial applications take advantage of free open source databases like SQLite and PostgreSQL,. Many web based commercial application run on the Apache web server which works not only in Windows, but in Linux, Mac and Unix computers. Such Commercial applications will also run in Windows IIS. One big advantage of open source is choice. With open source you do not get locked into a single platform and vendor, and the Windows churn which keeps everyone reaching for their wallets to buy new software and computers is somewhat alleviated. These advantage certainly help me sleep better at night. Regards, LelandJ Vince Teachout wrote: > Ted Roche wrote: > >> On 4/20/07, Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> It's unclear from your post what your client is supposed to be >> considering. >> > I wasn't aware just how unclear it was, until you started asking > questions. I'm looking for basic "What is Open Source" and "Why is Open > Source a GOOD thing?" type articles, preferably with statistics. He > has a 2 main products that are written in VFP. When I made the offhand > remark that there is a push going on to try and get VFP source to become > open source, his reaction was "Oh No! That's bad, right?" > > He's recently understood that he might be losing out on a business > opportunity by not having a browser app, but when I mentioned PHP he > said "No, a lot of our clients shops are MS only, so it has to be ASP or > Dot Net. They won't allow us to run PHP on their machines anyway" And > later he called back to say that he had mentioned PHP to someone, and > they told him it was ok for small hobby sites, but couldn't scale to > large sites and wasn't secure. > > Finally, he thinks that open source means we have to give away our > intellectual property (source code). > > I'm trying to steer him towards XAMP in the future ( in addition to our > current VFP software), because the Linux market for our product appears > to be completely untapped, and I think the write-once deploy-many cross > platform nature of Python would be a huge money maker. > > But I have a lot of 'splaining to do, first. I will be Googling my own > homework, but I thought maybe others may have had this similar > situation, and had standard links they might point their clients too. I > did look at Cathedrial and Bazaar, btw, but way more techie than I'm > looking for. Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
