RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

I actually had a talk with my boss today... We discussed different technologies and why we chose them. The reasons we chose Java/JSP/J2EE etc: 1) Scalability (number 1 reason) 2) Different projects like EJB etc I had been talking about PHP a lot and he says he likes it to but... Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Egan [mailto:egan@sevenkings.net] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:53 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> > wrote: > > >> Many small businesses would like to do e-commerce, but can't afford > >> expensive consultants, expensive hardware, and expensive software > >> tools developed by huge corporations. > > > >e-commerce? You mean B2C? Can small business live from that? I'm afraid > >not! Maybe I am wrong. :-) > > > 100 years ago you could easily do business without a telephone. But > what percentage of businesses today operate without a telephone? > > A web presence with web commerce will become a utility like the > telephone. Having it will be more important than measuring artificial > distinctions between B2C vs. B2B. > > > >> Look at all the large corporations bleeding money and cutting staff. > >> Mega-corporations are in decline, and their era is ending. Long live > >> the small business! > > > >What? Large business are being affected because the whole networking > >business is in recession. > > > Large corporations don't know you or care about you as an individual > customer. You're just an account number to them. The only thing they > care about is the "big" sale to other "big" corporations. But even > then, do they really care? Not in my experience. > > The networking recession is just one symptom of their disease. > > Why would anyone want to do business that way? If I can find a small > business that sells the service or product I need, that's who gets my > business first. > > If people ask how large my company is, I tell them "We're large enough > to handle your business, and small enough to care." > > > Egan > > > > -- > 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 > > >