* Pedro irán méndez pérez <irancho2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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? Even if PHP were to disappear, you'd still have it installed on your intranet -- and I assume you make backups. In addition, 'open source' should imply that it *won't* disappear. Proprietary products exist at the whim of the company producing them. Microsoft could decide next year that .NET is a failure... and it would be gone. Microsoft could decide to exit the software biz and go into hardware... and .NET would be gone. PHP, on the other hand, will have its source code out available for anyone to modify -- and if one developer stops working on it, others will come forward to fill the void. PHP is also free; you won't need to pay a cent for it. The same is not true of .NET, and you may actually have to pay for it again and again, based on the license you purchase. Because PHP is free, you can also prototype your intranet without spending a cent -- which might be something you want to do to show your boss what PHP can do. As for support, again, with .NET, you have to pay for support (although there are a number of free forums out there). With PHP, your primary means of support are free -- these mailing lists/newsgroups, forums, etc. You can always opt for paid support through companies like Zend, but it's doubtful you'll need to do so. Additionally, PHP has been around quite a number of years. I first heard of it before I ever heard mention of .NET. I'd say that the fact PHP has been around as long as it has gives some indication of its staying power in the future. (And, for the record: our intranet is PHP based.) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | mailto:matthew@xxxxxxxxxx Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association | http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
