Re: PHP vs Java need advice!

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay" wrote: > Hello everyone-- > Quick little question for you all. The company I work for is thinking about > doing away with PHP (we are using 3.0.15). We use it for all of our > intranet things, which is 100's of applications. They are wanting to go > with Java servlets, beans etc. The thing is everyone here loves PHP so we > are having to compile a big list why we want to keep it with our company. Who is they? Assuming they are management, do they have a bullet point list of reasons why they want to move to Java? (I'm trying very hard to avoid remarks about basing policy decisions on trade magazine articles, here) I'd suggest in your attempt to counter the move to Java, you recommend instead updating your apps to PHP4 (Which may not actually involve any work, but that's just a matter of testing) so that you can take advantage of all that PHP4 goodness (Better speed, optimizer, etc), and what is to come (Compiler, other Zend toys). > I was wondering if anyone could possibly point me to ANY and ALL articles > talking about security, speed, and anything else you could think of that > would make PHP look good to the higher ups :) Articles comparing PHP to > Java would be the best if there are any! > > Any help would be GREAT because all the developers here love php and don't > want to have to rewrite everything using java. And from the sounds of it, doing so would be silly. If you're talking about 100's of intranet applications, that implies to me that they are 100's of relatively small apps. This is not even slightly what Java is aimed towards, so from my perspective rewriting all that code in Java would be overkill. PHP, on the other hand, is about the most perfect small app development environment you could ask for. It's there with all the extensions at your disposal, no compiling or environment configuration to worry about. Matt