Re: If PHP4 existed in 1995 we would of taken over the world by now

Hi Maxim, Hotmail was hot because nobody had ever seen free webmail and it spread by word of mouth. I don't know but did anyone see a hotmail commerical??? What I am saying is that if php is always following or copying the technology that happened a couple years ago then what's the point? php will then always be known as the low cost option and project managers won't even give it a second look. What I am looking for is the cool factor. I know technology needs time to improve but what's going to be cool in PHP5??? It's like a race that never finishes and who is winning? ASP or PHP? Maxim Derkachev wrote: > Hello Bob, > > Monday, September 03, 2001, 1:08:40 PM, you wrote: > B> If in 1995 you tell a project manager that I can program > B> hotmail.com in a couple weeks and that it would be a lot faster then cgi > B> then they would of been forced to use it and all the marketing would not > B> matter. > Then (maybe) hotmail could have been written in php, but again, it > would be hotmail, not squirrelmail. We know hotmail as it is now not because > it is written in perl/asp/php/jsp/whatever, but because it is simply a > successful project. Marketing and promotion here means more than the > underlying engine - without it there would be no hotmail or yahoo, but > something else, like, say, coldmail and hoooya, better promoted. > > Meanwhile, there were no microwave oven in 1950. It simply could not > exist in 1950. Like PHP, ASP, JSP, etc. could not exist in 1985 in the > current form. Technology needs time to improve. > > -- > Best regards, > Maxim Derkachev mailto:max.derkachev@books.ru > System administrator & programmer, > Symbol-Plus Publishing Ltd. > phone: +7 (812) 324-53-53 > www.books.ru, www.symbol.ru _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com