RE: [PHP-DB] Re: XML

Hi Thanks to all, Mike and Jeremy in particular. Excuse the slightly off topic post. A more general question........ M$ have a range of ecommerce / application development suites - Commerce Server, Biztalk and others, I think (I am not an expert on M$ products ) Is there a suite of php or open source tools aimed at delivering business services? As my example shows the integration of systems is becoming increasingly important. Mixing functionality and communication with other services is the kind of thing I am talking about. I have taken a look at PEAR, which seems to be aiming to do this, but seems to offer a limited amount of actual modules, which in turn seem to be basic - db connection, authorisation, content delivery (and XML :)) I tend to have my head down - family and work leave a little time for eating and sleeping, but not much else :) so there may be plenty out there which I haven't had the time to discover. If not, I am interested in people's thoughts. I have a development framework, and am wondering what to do with it - licence it for money, open source it, sell it or just use it. Is there a call for an integrated suite of modules for building sites and services, or do developers want to do their own thing, or are needs so diverse that it is pointless? Mail me off list if this is not appropriate material Peter ----------------------------------------------- Excellence in internet and open source software ----------------------------------------------- Sunmaia www.sunmaia.net info@sunmaia.net tel. 0121-242-1473 ----------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: MikeParton [mailto:mike.parton@nimblesdg.com] > Sent: 28 June 2002 19:06 > To: Peter Lovatt > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: XML > > > As a side note, and not to promote Microsoft, by any means, the > functionality you are looking for is, by and large, the premise of MS > Biztalk Server. You might want to poke into the technical aspects of that > to see where you need to go using php/mysql/allied functionality. >