Re: [PHP4BETA] Help craft PHP description

Mark Nold wrote: > hi, > > > I remember having clients asking why we didnt rewrite everything in Java in > the middle of sales presentations, and also my non IT literate friends > saying "Hey have you heard about this Java thing? Its pretty good isnt it." > Wouldn't it be fantastic if the first thing users/managers/clients said was > "Oh you just have to do that in PHP!". Unfortunatly that would not be the > results of PHP being the best language in the world, but the result of a > well thought out strategy to make "PHP the product" the best in the world. > Linux didn't have companies going public and all the media attention until "Linux the product" came out. Being a "product" doesn't have anything to quality of the language, but it does help recognition. I wouldn't mind if I was at a meeting and didn't have to suggest PHP as an option. I would like to hear PHP in context like "... well what will we use for this PHP, ASP, Java....?" Michael