Re: stability

I will second everyone else's replies to this thread. PHP, under Unix, is one of the most stable platforms I've ever used (experience includes multiple dev environments under NT, OS/2 and Linux). PHP under NT is indeed not ready for primetime, but I would contend that something like CF under NT would face stability problems - anything built on a shifting base is inherently unstable. (MS programs written by MS crash - see previoud PHP v ASP thread in the archives for more on this). Although we don't know anything about who told you this rumor, I hear people knocking PHP occasionally and invariably they have training/grounding/financial ties to another platform - inherent bias. Speaking as someone who has done projects in Perl, PHP, ASP and some Java in the past 9 months, PHP is a tremendous platform for rapid application development, and quite stable to deploy. "R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D." wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Claudius Weinberger wrote: > > > > > At the moment, we consider to convert our Website from Perl to PHP. > > > Within our researches a rumour appeared, that PHP 4 is too buggy for > > > professional use. The rumour also claimed, that even zend.com doesn't > > > use PHP 4 because of its instability. > > > > > > We are now very unsettled about the case. Is there anybody who can > > > either confirm oder correct this statement? > > This is pure FUD from some company that is frightened of PHP. The > simple fact is that it is as good or better than the expensive > proprietary equivalents -- I guess I'd be scared too, if my living > depended on selling these systems. > > Cheerio, Rick Rodgers -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961