Re: PHP/Linux v.s. PHP/Windows

Why not use Postgres instead of MySQL? Personally, I disagree a bit - I really would like to see PHP be as powerful on both Windows and Unix (and mac). This, imo, means that my skills are more portable, at least in theory. Java people don't need to worry as much about the underlying OS - Java on NT should be pretty much as powerful as Java on Solaris. I'm oversimplifying, I know, but it's still the idea that attracts me. PHP on windows is an intermediate to help folks migrate *from* NT to something else, if that's something they'd like to do. Keep your current hardware and OS, let's just start migrating some logic to another language. If that language is portable to another platform, you can migrate in steps, rather than all at once. NT/ASP -> NT/PHP -> Linux/PHP, for example. As it stands, although PHP on Linux is shown to run at pretty damn high volumes, PHP on NT can't do the same, so someone going from high volume NT/ASP to PHP can't migrate as easily, if they wanted to. Paul O'Neil wrote: > Would the most important factor for shops not to convert from a IIS, SQL > Server , NT , ASP environment to a Linux, MySQL , Perl, PHP, Apache solution > be the Mysql database is not fully transactional. It seems that for the long > term this would be a superior course than trying to get PHP and other nicer > development tools that run better on Linux to work on NT. ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961