Because among 17 million installed domains, and because the Open Source is "open", someone in those 17 million domains will keep it going. http://www.php.net/usage.php Some people never get it, you confuse them with too many facts, hope your manager has an open mind. Warren Vail > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Sims [mailto:matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:55 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: PHP Supremacy... > > > > Hello my friends, I need your help in convince to my boss > in adopt php > > for development of a tool for intranet in my office, he > told me that > > php is open source and we don´t know if will disappear in a > year, or > > if php have a support like .net. > > > > what arguments can I show for convince him to try PHP? > > > > Thank you very much :) > > If the original developers of PHP decide to stop working on > PHP, anyone can pick it up and continue developing it since > it's open source. > > If Microsoft one day decides to stop work on .NET or goes out > of business, well then that's just too bad. It's proprietary, > belongs only to Microsoft and no one has access to the source > code to continue its work. > > Seeing the major breakthrough PHP has made in the past few > years, does your boss really think PHP is going away? > > I see that Perl is still around. > > -- > --Matthew Sims > --<http://killermookie.org> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
