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

> lists wrote: >> 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 > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hull_asp.html > http://php.weblogs.com/php_vs_asp > http://marty.anstey.ca/programming/php_asp.html > > As far as 'hobbyists'...well, that's a lack of an educated opinion (or > someone who is either a MS sheep, or locked in via MS licenses). My > 'hobby' pays me quite well. Tell your boss to pay attention to some of > the 'hobbyists' using php the next time he's surfing the web. Or maybe > pay attention to .NET items such as this (out of the hundreds of items > like this)... > > > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/07/aspnet_security_flaw_can_bypass_password.html > > -- > John C. Nichel Netcraft is a great resource tool. If you boss is so in love with Windows, why not PHP on Windows? http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/30/php_growing_surprisingly_strongly_on_windows.html -- --Matthew Sims --<http://killermookie.org>