On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:17:44 -0600, Pedro Irán Méndez Pérez <irancho2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > You know that PHP will not disapear in a year, as it is Open Source and anybody can take it and do what he wants with the source code ... Also there are important companies that have PHP based bussines (Zend for example). Well, the first thing you must tell him is that Microsoft has demonstred that changes technologies at his own interests. When a new version is released you have to update if you want support. As the source code is closed, nobody else than MS can maintain the code, so you're married with them. And of course, any upgrade means lots of money. If you choose the MS platform, Microsoft will decide when you should upgrade, if you look at PHP, you have not to upgrade to PHP-5 if PHP4 covers yours needs, as PHP4 continues maintained and patched. Developing in dotNET means that you will not be able to change your platform in the future. As it only runs on Windows, you cannot change in the future. Choosing PHP gives you the freedom to change your systems when you want. You can concentrate in your development and don't worry about the platform what will host your scriuts: PHP will run in that platform. You know PHP is available for ANY platform: Windows, Linux. Solaris, FreeBSD, and all sort of Unix ... Also, if you choose PHP, you will easly find lots of ready-made scripts to help you in your work and to speed-up your developments. You know, there are tons of sites and projects that provides you with scripts for almost any purpose and with free open source license. Make a search in Google and compare results of free code available written in PHP and in dotNET. Also the learning curve for PHP is really short. You can quickly start with simple scripts and scale fast ... If you thing about hosting companies, most of them support PHP, and only some support dotNet hosting ... in that price is a factor, as the companies must pay licenses for Windows and dotNet, when they can give the same services with Linux+PHP, so, hosting PHP scripts is always cheaper than hosting dotNET pages. Now, some info taken from the web: Taken from the Oracle website. Good article that tells why Oracle chooses PHP at http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hull_asp.html PHP 4 PHP 5 ASP.NET Software price free free free Platform price free free $$ Speed strong strong weak Efficiency strong strong weak Security strong strong strong Platform strong strong weak (IIS only) Platform any any win32 (IIS only) Source available yes yes no Exceptions no yes yes OOP weak strong strong Also, you can point to some well known companies that use PHP (From the Zend Website) : Lucent Technologies McGrawn Hill Lycos Lufthansa Hewlett Packard Nortel Networks AMD Siemens Apple UPS Bausch & Lomb Also you will find interesting comparisions and articles if you search at Google: php vs asp.net why choose php over asp.net? Regards, Jordi. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
