First thing you need to figure out is whether or not your manager is insane. That argument seems to come from either someone who is, or someone who hasn't a monos(monkeys) clue about software management. A few facts: dotNET runs on Linux - with the help of mono or dotGNU. Check them out, and use them if they fulfill your needs, since it will be easier to port from them to MS, than from MS to mono. XPCOM from the Mozilla Project is a Cross Platform alternative for COM(someone said that COM only works on MS Win) MS is a security nightmare: Not only does it have more holes, but more people are looking to find holes in MS software. More people are looking to exploit holes in MS sw. It takes longer for security updates for MS software. Linux security holes are rarely targeted(in comparison to MS), and if you regularly update your sytem, and subscribe to your distros security mailing list, you're pretty much covered. TCO: MS admins are cheaper to hire, but nix admins get more done. Lets say a windows admin costs $X, and a Linux Admin costs $2X, per year. A linux admin is still better value, since he can manage, about a factor of 10 more than windows admins can. => Linux admins are ~5 times better value than win admins. Zend (Zend.com) offer commercial support for PHP. Zend provide for the PHP professional what MS provides for the dotNET professional. Check out zend.com. You also, when you use PHP, don't rely on any commercially produced code, with the exception of the original-BSD-style-licensed Zend Engine. 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? > > Thank you very much :) > > ===== > "¿Acaso se olvidará la mujer de su bebé, y dejará de compadecerse del hijo > de su vientre? Aunque ellas se olviden, yo no me olvidaré de ti" > > Isa 40:27 > ===== > > Atte Pedro Irán Méndez Pérez > > -- > 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
