RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

Sorry, Should have given specific information. The original article I read was from InfoWorld. It can be found at: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/07/09/010709opcringely.xml Following is the excerpt from it: Place in the Sun Meanwhile the light finally dawned on archrival Sun Microsystems, as the company discovered the awful truth: Few developers use Java Server Pages (JSP). Rather, many use that quiet achiever, the ugly-duckling language Perl. On its Solaris Developer Connection site, Sun posed the question, "What language do you use to develop Web-based client applications?" The responses went like this: Perl, 41.3 percent; JSP, 19.9 percent; C/C++, 14.2 percent; Linux script language PHP, 11.2 percent; Microsoft Active Server Pages, 8.8 percent; and other, 4.3 percent. Check it out for yourself at soldc.sun.com/polls/index.jshtml -- if they haven't taken it down yet. Notice it even gives info on PHP use .... :-) Hope this helps. Jeff Pearson > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Deliduka [mailto:thomas@neweve.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:31 PM > To: PHP List > Subject: [PHP] The future of PHP > > > A little background... Skip to "THE JIST" if you wanna make this quick. > > I am on this webmaster's list where most of the people are fairly new > webmasters. They're just getting the hang of things. I am probably one of > the only advanced ones on there (not to toot my own horn really) > and I'm one > of two who use PHP (the other is just learning.) > > I tout PHP and MySQL as awesome, which they are, but I don't say > they're the > only technology out there. > > There is another guy, a kid, who is a major Java guy and he's BIG into XML > and JSP. > > Some guy on this list asked what a good dynamic web solution is, I > immediately chimed in and said PHP was great, free, and on most all linux > hosts. Told him how powerful it was and what could be done with it. > > This kid chimes in and says, something to the affect of that if the guy > wants to live in the past and not let his website go anywhere > then he should > go with PHP but JSP is the wave of the future and it's more powerful, and > has the backing of the almighty Sun and the Open Source community > (as if PHP > doesn't). > > THE JIST > > So, the jist is, what does PHP have to offer to the web in the future? I > think it's still a viable option that will be around for at least another > 6-7 years. This kid thinks it's shelf life is another 3. What do ya'll > think? > > -- > > Thomas Deliduka > IT Manager > ------------------------- > New Eve Media > The Solution To Your Internet Angst > http://www.neweve.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 >