Re: Why PHP ?

On Saturday 09 December 2000 18:34, Jeff Demel wrote: > > Paying for support is an interesting argument; however, I think you miss > the fact that there are tons of free support sites, news groups, and email > lists for ASP, just as there are for PHP. The monetary downfall of ASP > resides more with the outrageous up-front and ongoing costs of the platform > than with support. Do you get the source with ASP? Only binarys? Oh, no. > I hope I'm not being too harsh, but I think the question is a really good > one, and I would like some legitimate responses with specific and detailed > examples. Opinion is a fine thing, but when trying to make a business case > for using a programming language and/or environment, specifics are needed. > > The stance of management folks is almost always that "we'll go with > Microsoft, unless you can convince us otherwise." So from the beginning > it's a battle. I would really like some good ammunition, and not just more > opinions and anecdotes. Just stick with M$ if you like. I'll stay on the Open-source side! Saludos... :-) -- System Administration: It's a dirty job, but someone told I had to do it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués email: martin@math.unl.edu.ar Santa Fe - Argentina http://math.unl.edu.ar/~martin/ Administrador de sistemas en math.unl.edu.ar -----------------------------------------------------------------