[ciapug] Zend / MS partnership

[Carl Olsen]

PHP is far better than ASP and Microsoft doesn't have anything like it.
Microsoft abandoned ASP and moved to ASP.NET which is more like Java.  PHP
is the easiest web programming language to set up and use quickly.  I'm not
surprised.  This might explain why ASP hasn't been revised since version 3.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Tony Bibbs
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:08 PM
To: ciapug at cialug.org
Subject: Re: [ciapug] Zend / MS partnership

I'm at the Zend conference as I write this and they had quite a bit of 
coverage here about it.  There is a set of patches for PHP that are 
going to be rolled into the codebase that alleviate some of that 
performance under windows/IIS.

I agree with you, run it where it was made to be happy but from Zend's 
perspective PHP adoption will depend on their ability to run it under 
IIS for those companies that won't make the jump to *nix.

--Tony

David Champion wrote:
> Interesting...
> 
>
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2
006-10-31T171644Z_01_N31453539_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-ZEND.xml 
> 
> 
> The article is obviosly not written by a technical person.
> 
> Gotta love this quote:
> 
> "For the 4.5 million software developers using PHP, the partnership 
> represents a victory for pragmatism, industry analysts said."
> 
> Seems to me that if, as the article points out, PHP doesn't currently 
> perform as well on Windows servers, the pragmatic thing to do would be 
> to run it on a *nix server where it runs just fine, wouldn't it?
> 
> -dc
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