Re: Zdnet Article

They were actually considering Windows as a viable platform for a server at all. *shudder* John Donagher wrote: > Responding to this article only prolongs its life. > > Treat PC Magazine/ZDNET's reviews as you would a 3rd grader's book report. > These are not technical publications; they are the Popular Mechanics of the PC > world. When considering languages/environments to use when building an > application, very few people will read ZDNET publications to help them decide. > > John > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > > There is a disappointing trend in 'mainstream' commentary on open source > > projects. This is an example of one. > > > > In the last year of so I have had a lot of experience with poor media > > coverage of projects I am either involved in or follow closely. One of the > > worst being an all out attack on PostgreSQL by an indian online magazine > > resently which seemed to be directed at an entirely different project. > > > > I think the short-comings of this article should be addressed in a civil > > manner. An open letter to ZDNet and the author, for example. This could be > > posted on the front page of php.net and would probably get coverage on > > places such as slashdot and perhaps ZDNet itself. I would recommend > > against personal and emotion emails to the author or to ZDNet as has > > happened in other cases. > > > > Such an open letter could be arranged on this list or by some of the top > > developers. I think it unfortunate that especially in the case of Open > > Source journalists are not doing any research -- I say especially because > > there is such a large amount of information and support for open source > > projects such as PHP. > > > > I would be happy to draft a response if everyone else would like to move > > in that direction. > > > > Gavin > > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Emmanuel FAIVRE wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2711724,00.html > > > > > > no word to comment that ! > > > > > > just see a adbanner for ColdFusion on the same page ! > > > > > > Manu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > John Donagher > Application Engineer > Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web > 408-395-0989 > 720 University Ave. > Los Gatos CA 95032 > www.intacct.com > > Public key available off http://www.keyserver.net > Key fingerprint = 4024 DF50 56EE 19A3 258A D628 22DE AD56 EEBE 8DDD > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net