Re: The future of PHP

> So, it is very hard to convince the anybody to bet all the farm in PHP. > You may have the technical arguments, but is not enough, I'm afraid. > > You in particular, may not need to convince others to bet on PHP, but it > is nothing like that for most people that want to live from software > development. They have to put up with work/business opportunities that > the market offers to live from it. So, today, I'm afraid that you > already still have an hard time to convince people to dedicate only to > PHP, even those that know and believe PHP is that great. PHP is represented at every important technical conference right alongside Perl and Python. When you hear someone talk about scripting languages, they will usually say Perl, Python and PHP. I don't see any problem with the current state of PHP "marketing" in the technical community. PHP is not marketed the way Java and .NET is. There are no multi-billion dollar corporations behind PHP and asking us, and apparently me personally, to make that happen is unrealistic. Like Linux 5 years ago, PHP is adopted by the techies and somewhat shunned by the suits because they haven't read about it in their latest advertisement-sponsored magazine. We can't possibly hope to compete with Sun and Microsoft when it comes to suit-oriented marketing drivel. What we can do is concentrate on what we do best. Writing a solid and very focused tool. Building the grassroot community and being visible at all relevant technical conferences. If we continue to do this, I see no reason for any dropoff in PHP popularity which leads directly to more and more corporate acceptance. -Rasmus