--- Douglas Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my University, people in charge of approving the
graduation works advocate Microsoft's technologies.
They don't believe in the free software movement or
the open source movement. Some guys tried to develop a
system using PHP and those people
Thanks to everybody for your kind responses.
By the way, I go to the Universidad de El Salvador
(Central America).
In a such poor country like this, Free Software and
Open Source could be the answer to the government's
software needs.
Unfortunately, MS has the monopoly in the government's
Many people over look this, but maybe you should contact publishers who
have PHP based books.
Would such books be needed if there wasn't a php market?
Cantact them regarding sales. Perhaps they will provide some numbers
regarding literature for
PHP and all open source publications.
Not to
Dunno if it will help, but here's a link to a thread I started a while back:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalw=2r=1s=convince+teh+bossq=t
Make sure you read the whole thread- a lot of people emailed more info than
was originally posted. Also, check everything first- it's been a while,
Thank you for the links Mr. Rees.
I specially liked the one about MS giving $500K to the
Peruvian President.
Thanks to everybody's help I have some BIG
COMMERCIAL, IMPARTIAL, RECOGNIZED WEBSITES articles
like IBM, Yahoo and Google.
I'm very thankful to all of you.
Regards, Douglas.
John Manko wrote:
I hate to be the one to break it to you but this isn't the real world.
It's a senior project, and he has a chance to justify the reason to do a
project in the language he see's fit, not what the political machine
wants. I just don't buy the don't go against the tide
I'm not so sure it's an entirely horrible idea for a university to focus on
one area over another. I went to art school - so I'm sure I'll be burned
at the stake for having comments :P But a great deal of my friends who
took comp sci or comp eng in uni are greatly unemployed - why you
ask?
I hate to be the one to break it to you but in the real world if a
client or the boss says program in ASP .NET you program in ASP.NET
because, well, that's where the money is. That doesn't mean there isn't
room for using better products, but sometimes you don't get an option.
-Dan
On Sun,
You could start by searching the list archives or google for something
like big sites PHP, since it's been discussed many many times.
The one that instantly springs to mind for me is Yahoo.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963937.html?tag=lh
But maybe there's very little point evangelising PHP in
http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/wowbb/forum12/149.html
you might also want to take a look at mono project. An open source
implementation of .net
http://www.go-mono.com/
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From: Douglas Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:46 PM
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--- Tim Thorburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If your Windows Server blows up - you dial a very expensive
Microsoft number to get help. If your Linux server running
some manner of PHP script blows up, you send out countless
emails to mailing lists hoping someone out there in the open
source
I hate to be the one to break it to you but this isn't the real world.
It's a senior project, and he has a chance to justify the reason to do a
project in the language he see's fit, not what the political machine
wants. I just don't buy the don't go against the tide mentality, and
obviously
In a such poor country like this, Free Software and
Open Source could be the answer to the government's
software needs.
Well, open source and free software are not God.
Netcraft surveys the internet and reports on actual server usage. It's
always good for a little dose of reality:
[snip]
I'm not so sure it's an entirely horrible idea for a university to focus
on one area over another. I went to art school - so I'm sure I'll be
burned at the stake for having comments :P But a great deal of my
friends who
took comp sci or comp eng in uni are greatly unemployed - why you
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