Re: Why PHP ? - devil's advocate

Nope, that's pretty much exactly what I meant, except that you said it better. :) Jade Ohlhauser 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. > > We are not talking about our personal preferences here, obviously if we are > on this list we have likely made the choice to use open source solutions. > > What Mike is giving is a reason why "people" would and do choose ASP and > other non-opensource solutions, he's not trying to say one is better than > the other. > > Sure the Microsoft solution may be less customizable, but if it gets the job > done that "con" becomes a "pro". Not everyone out there appreciates or can > even use the benefits of open source like we do. Frankly sometimes the > downsides of open source software frustrate me as well. It's great there are > 10,000 ways we can get the job done, but when it all comes down to it all I > want is the job done and if Bill has chosen a way and it works then some > people will appreciate that part of it being taken care of for them. > > Please don't argue that open source is better to me, I agree with you and > have chosen PHP. You can't deny though that there are advantages and > disadvantages such as this case where the advantage of many options comes > with the disadvantage of having to manage those options. > > (Sorry Mike if that's not at all what you meant) > > ............. Jade Ohlhauser > [website maestro]........... http://bandwidthplace.com > > -- > 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 -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com PHP Training courses http://www.tapinternet.com/php