Hi Paul, Yes, that is the article that I saw. One of them anyway. Thank you for sheding some light on that. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Paul Menard [mailto:paulmenard1@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:29 PM To: Jim MacDiarmid; php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Php5 merging with Java??? I cannot speak for the direction of PHP since I am not part of that development. I am just a PHP developer like yourself. But if you are referring to the Developer Shed Plug-in article http://www.developershed.com/plugin/PlugIn_magazine_september2004.pdf#page=9 I would not worry too much. DevShed is a M$ shop and tends to at time slant articles on the negative about open source tools. In an attempt to sway folks to use ASP.Net and C# I'm guessing. I have see no announcement from PHP about this. Pure speculation. But you have to wonder...PHP is rally part of the Apache group. So it Tomcat and many other fine Java packages. So why not a closer integration? Then again the deal mentioned in the Dev Shed article about a proprietary PHP for use by Sun is no different than Red Hat taking their product to a more marketable direction. Same goes for MySQL. They both still offer the free open source versions. But there is a non-Open source version with 'special' features as well. Paul --- Jim MacDiarmid <jim.macdiarmid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been reading the latest articles about the future of PHP and > based on the way I am understanding it, I'm getting the impression > that PHP will not be free or open source. I'm interested in getting > other PHP developer options and/or clarification of this direction. > What is this going to do to the PHP community? Will most PHP > developers stick with it or take up some other language such as C# for > example? I am a relatively new PHP developer and I really like it's > ease of use and all the functionality the current 4.x.x version has, > so I find the news of it's current path rather depressing. > > Thank you all in advance for your input, > > Jim > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
