Re: PHP and Broadvision

Thanks - I feel also that PHP can do pretty much everything that is needed... Abe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shashank Tripathi" <admin@shanx.com> To: "Abe Asghar" <abe@fish.tm>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 11:38 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP and Broadvision > HI Abe, > > Broadvision, Vignette etc are Content Management Systems, and it is > incorrect to compare them to PHP. PHP is a language, like Java (which most > of these expensive systems are written in). BV, Vignette etc would be > comparable to Zope (www.zope.com), eGrail (www.egrail.com) etc. > > Most of the latter are very new, and much more reasonable in their pricing, > but if you ask me, they are just about as extendible and powerful as any of > their over-priced counterparts. > > Of course, neither of the above, including BV and Vignette, are free from > headaches. Both have very proprietary APIs if you wish to add anything to > their pre-packaged functionality. > > As in the case of the company that I work for, sometimes the reasons that > you go for one product or another are not really technology based (in which > case, I would think that anything based on PHP would easily win, IMHO > because it would be REALLY easy to maintain and would be CONSIDERABLY faster > than anything even touched by Java), but necessitated by "business > realities" (Java = more money can be charged etc). > > BTW, you might like to check the following two opinionated links: > > - Broadvision > http://www.peterme.com/bvsucks/ > > - Vignette: > http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/vignette-old > (and a new copy of this document: > http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/vignette.html) > > > Hope this helps, > </Shanx> > > -- > Ships are safe inside a harbour > but is that what ships are really for? > > Shashank Tripathi > www.shanx.com > > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Abe Asghar [mailto:abe@fish.tm] > | Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 6:18 PM > | To: php-general@lists.php.net > | Subject: [PHP] PHP and Broadvision > | > | > | Hey there, > | > | I am a PHP developer but like to keep up with technology that > | is around - > | Our clients in general are tending to be bigger as the company > | gets bigger - > | > | Should we be looking at Broadvision and such products as > | opposed to PHP in > | the long term for larger projects- Does anyone have experience of these > | products and PHP and do they offer greater advantages such as better > | development time (although PHP is fast to write) or more stable or > | something? > | > | At the moment they seem kinda unnecessary and expensive - but we need to > | plan our strategy and technology ahead... > | > | Thamks, > | Abe > | > | > | -- > | PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > | To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > | For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > | To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > | > | > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >