Re: Why PHP ? - devil's advocate

> Whether I'm running Windows or Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris, > my time is valuable. If I can install something in Windows > in 10 minutes, rather than hours or days of tracking down compilation > issues, then Windows becomes more attractive. The > positives and negatives of each system need to be taken into > account, but I think that for *many* people, the perception > of difficulty in compiling/using open source stuff becomes the reality. And how much of your valuable time do you spend keeping those NT machines up and running. I've spent a total of 30 minutes at the CoLo in the last month and that was to replace bad hardware. Like I said before the time spent setting up a rock solid solution easily outways the time of upkeep with an unstable NT solution - and I've seen MANY people spend WEEKS getting those up and running because they don't always work as well as you seem to think they do. --Joe > > Those of you who've grown up in Unix or have the luxury of > weeks or months or years of education at the low level of > Unix can get past many issues - many others of us can't. And > don't have the time to go further. > > I've been very grateful for many open source projects - there's > some great quality out there. But compiling and installing > many projects is still a headache beyond belief in many instances. > > Joe Stump wrote: > > > We (the open source community) give you SO many options, empower you with the > > ability to do it your way, the ability to create your own way. The thanks we > > get? "So many different versions around..." !!!! > > > > I'm (as most open source people are I'm sure) sick of hearing people complain > > about "this is hard", "why this way?", etc. - if you like Bill telling > > you how > > to run your operations then go out and spend the capital to run it his way. > > > > I on the other hand would rather have a rock solid solution created to fit our > > EXACT specifications - for free. > > > > --Joe > > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:43:11AM +0100, Sander Pilon wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can pay a company to get you precompiled binaries of the app. > > > > There are > > > > so many opensource companies out there. > > > > I'm not sure if you tried looking for one of those? :-) > > > > > > > > Saludos... :-) > > > > > > > > > > One of the primary (and recognised) problems of linux is that > > > the distribution of binaries is a nightmare. So many different versions > > > around, > > > so many different libcs, so many different libstdc++'s, some of them > > > thread-safe, > > > some of them not, so many different graphical platforms.... etc, etc. > > > > > > > --- > > Joe Stump > > PHP Programmer > > www.Care2.com > > --- Joe Stump PHP Programmer www.Care2.com