Re: Why PHP ? - devil's advocate

This is not the place to actually argue out the ins and outs of this stuff - it's enough to state that the two types of solutions (opensource and commercial) need to be taken into consideration and all the pros and cons weighed up by the individual at the time, and leave it at that. It's impossible to state which is better as fact because it differs so much from person to person, and situation to situation. jason > 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.