Daevid Vincent wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ed Lazor [mailto:edlazor@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:05 PM >> Cc: Daevid Vincent; PHP General >> Subject: Re: Microsoft Partners With Zend >> >> ps... I wonder if .NET will ever support PHP *GRIN* > > I guess that's sorta what I'm afraid of... PHP# > (like the did to Java -> J++ -> C# ) > > Don't get me wrong. C# is a great language (probably one of the few things > that M$ did right), and I'd LOOOOOVE to use a real IDE like Visual Studio to > dev in... > > But I'm also terrified they'll pervert PHP. How? Microsoft's only weapon here is to make PHP work better on Windows. They can't in any way make it worse on non-Windows platforms. This is the sort of involvement we want from Microsoft. We want them to compete technologically as opposed to some of the crap we have seen from them over the years. And don't forget that press releases and partnerships mean very little to an open source project. They didn't partner with us, they partnered with Zend. That's not going to give them better access to commit code to PHP. The only slight negative as far as you are concerned could be that they may divert some Zend resources to work on Windows issues that aren't interesting to you. But consider that there are 1133 people with PHP cvs accounts. Only 11 work for Zend, and out of those 11 only 3 have committed anything substantial in the past year. Zend resources are already diverted to their various commercial projects. And some of that will most likely result in some contributions to PHP funneled through one of the 3 active people, so that might be a bit low, but still. The point is that PHP is a large open source project with broad support from a number of companies and even more stubborn open source developers. No one company can "pervert PHP". -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
