Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO

At 11:42 PM +0200 10/12/00, eschmid+sic@s.netic.de wrote: >On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:14:10PM +0200, Björn Schotte wrote: > >> As Zend Technologies was so disappointing at the >> PHP conference last week, we wanted to know where >> PHP's further steps in the future will be. It should >> be logical to do the steps into a full application >> server. > >IMHO it is not allowed to call something disappointing in Open Source >Software. All the time it can be very different. > As I understood it, "disappointing" as in a different expectation. Doron's presentation was more a "marketing" presentation than a "technical" one. But, as we all know, acceptance of any Open Source platform, PHP included, _requires_ such presentation to "convince" management of the value of Open Source. If I may refer to ApacheCon, we got quite a number of requests for _more_ marketing and business focused presentations... Sometimes technical presentation are little more than "preaching to the choir" :) Also, some developers were curious about Zend and were happy to get that different look at what is a very technically focused company. And, as with all truly Open Source projects, the future of PHP depends on the PHP community and developers :) Certainly, Zend will be there. -- Jim Jagielski <jim@zend.com> CTO and PHP Evangelist, Zend Technologies V: 410-420-0140 | F: 410-803-2258 | M: 443-324-8390 http://www.zend.com/