Re: general research question (maybe a little OT, sorry)

> Hi List, > > My boss recently called PHP "good for hobbyists" but REAL sites have to > be done with Microsoft technologies. He wants to use Sharepoint for a > wiki type site because of versioning. > > Can anyone point me to resources about versioning and inherent > strengths and reliability of PHP? > > Thanks. > -dg A quick Google search for your PHB: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963937.html?tag=lh The following sites have been known to use PHP: www.sourceforge.net (30 millions pv/month) www.audiogalaxy.com (Napster follow-up, dozens of millions per/month) http://livebid.amazon.com (a part of Amazon.com, bet has a good traffic) http://mp3.lycos.com (One of the largest MP3 search engines in the world by Lycos. Their traffic but must be measured in several dozens of millions pv/mon) http://xoom.com (a huge online multi-service site. the #1 competitor to GeoCities) www.capitalone.com (well known credit card company) www.ecrush.com (14 million hits a month on avg) www.bangable.com (4 million page views a month. All PHP/mySQL) www.amdmb.com (uses MySQL and PHP for everything. 5 million pages/mon) www.insight.com (is a publicly traded fortune 1000 company. The site is 90% PHP) www.ig.com.br (the 3rd largest Brazilian portal) www.goeureka.com.au/super.php (AltaVista in Australia) www.kinderstart.com (Major children's portal. PHP and mySQL and some Perl.) www.marketplayer.com (provides the real-time stock market simulations for sites like etrade.com and smartmoney.com that have these games) www.dc.com (Deloitte Consulting) www.dialpad.com (user registration and member backend is PHP driven) www.thewb.com (uses PHP for the interactive areas such as message boards, polls, etc.) also: www.nbci.com www.sprint.ca www.ElectronicArts.com www.f2s.com www.indy500.com www.planetsourceocde.com www.easydns.com www.admworld.com www.communityconnect.com www.viant.com www.chek.com www.yahoo.com Yes, Google uses PHP at least in few pages. <http://toolbar.google.com/whatsnew.php3> <http://toolbar.google.com/failed.php> And guess what! The guy who wrote PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, works at Yahoo! http://lerdorf.com/resume/ An article about the PHP scalability myth: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php_scalability.html Anything else? :) -- --Matthew Sims --<http://killermookie.org>