from the news: Andreessen Sets Sights on PHP

[sclark]

thought the community would be interested in this:

Andreessen Sets Sights on PHP

Internet visionary Marc Andreessen has taken an interest in PHP (define), an open source programming language some consider a threat to languages, such as Java and Microsoft's Active Server Pages and .NET.

The Netscape co-founder along with Informatica Founder Gaurav Dhillon joined the board of directors at Zend Technologies, the top provider of PHP software, services and technical support. The company's two co-creators are the authors of PHP 3, which is what all subsequent versions are based on.

The fact that heavy-hitting technologists like Andreessen and Dillon are backing Zend is a testament to the language and the company building its business on it.

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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3552591

[piersk]

Personally I reckon he's jumping on a bandwagon... you notice hoe he's done this after both IBM and Oracle have got into bed with Zend...

[dalecosp]

How will they know who the children belong to? :D

Oh, well, it may get interesting. I'm not leaving PHP (AAMOF, I'm about to land a pretty nice job that should take a few months, I think), but I'm finding Python to be worth digging into ATM, also.

I'm just having trouble saying "spam and eggs'" instead of "foo, bar, baz....." ;)

[piersk]

I'm liking ASP.NET quite a lot

[dalecosp]

Didja ever wonder about the PHP job market?

I wonder if it's so easy that instead of hiring people to code, big ops just give it to their existing staff and say, "get this learned and push out a project in six weeks" or something.

That might explain some of the postings on this board, eh? ;)

[vaaaska]

I too am hearing about Python everywhere...and for everything (like programming music and online gaming). It's been there but now it's out there much more. Since somebody else mentioned it...

Perhaps y'all will have an opinion on this, but what might be the consequences of all of these PHP 'framework' systems that are popping all over the place these days?

I sort of feel it's a dilution of the core logic - which serves to either confuse or degrade the overall quality [insert whatever here] of things. But I'm not sure what this means in the bigger picture...

[Weedpacket]

I'm thinking that PHP will end up like Java - frameworks up the wazoo and the joys of apps written to different frameworks having to play together and who knows how many different "Javas" floating around (I've seen Java with templates and assertions - when did that happen?). Main reason I got sick of Java, that.

That's a mental image that really brings tears to the eyes....

[vaaaska]

I'm thinking that PHP will end up like Java - frameworks up the wazoo and the joys of apps written to different frameworks having to play together and who knows how many different "Javas" floating around (I've seen Java with templates and assertions - when did that happen?). Main reason I got sick of Java, that.

This was sort of my assumption. Sounds to me like a new organization in the making PHPstandards.com or whatever - trying to keep programmers working together as opposed to building their own independent tower of Babels. I guess something like Pear is trying to advance that kind of idea but working with their packages comes with a cost.