Re: PHP usage stats
| From: | tedd | Date: | Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:02:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP usage stats | ||
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At 2:41 PM +0000 2/9/09, Stuart wrote:
I think people are like that everywhere, particularly above a certain level of management in my experience. I wish you luck in convincing them but I've found that PHP rarely wins when put up against the sales and marketing budgets available to Microsoft and Oracle. It's going to take a while for the majority of people to stop equating free with worthless or risky when the truth is that products from closed corporations carry more risk than open source software. You should tell them your QuickBasic story - that might start some mental cogs turning in their heads.Yes, that's another story. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com