Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Business Pack From: Ulf Wendel (ulf.wendel <email protected>)
Date: 12/10/00

James Moore wrote:
> Somthing that a lot of people have been asking for in various places is
> reasons for using PHP commerically. I thought that I would try and gather as
> much information as possible together and put together a bussiness pack on
> why to use PHP commercialy.
>
> What I would like to include is:
> - Costs of Development/Deployment

- free
- flat learning curve
- cheap scripters vs. expensive programmers
- rapid prototyping
- lots of functions for everydays work
- broad database support
- buzz words: XML/XSLT
- phplib, pear and php-classes repositories

> - Comparing ease of use/speed against other scripting langs.

- easy to compile and install
- available for lots of webservers
- Zend/bware Cache

> - PHP in a commercial enviroment

- strong community
- professional support avaiable
- professional training avaiable
- Zend Encoder/Loader to hide code

> - Scaleability (Please no application server stuff)

Hmm. Not really a strength of PHP. Starts with CGI and ends with mod_php
/ DNS round robin. Scales mainly just by the hardware. Maybe you could
try to discuss Apache 2.0.

> - Some benchmarks

Really difficult, try to avoid this. All benchmarks lie...

> - Case Studies of existing solutions

Have a look at the existing list of users on
http://www.php.net/sites.php .

> - Anything else anybody thinks is relavant

http://www.php.net/projects.php, PHP architecture (modular, easy to
extend...).

Ulf 

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