> I guess I must be lucky. Where I currently work we have been using ColdFusion and >Oracle for all our database web > development. After verifying with the SAs that we had compiled php support on our >new instalation of Apache on Solaris > I asked our CIO directly if it would be ok to look at starting new web applications >using PHP. I was told that as long > as the other developers did not mind learning it to support the applications I built >that it was a go.
I did not go deeply into the cost benefits of php, or the support benifits associated with the open source community. I simply pointed out that we already were configured to run it. I did mentioned that it looked to be as powerful or more powerful than our current solution and that it worked natively with our database. The CIO here is not a pushover at all. Most often it takes me forever to get my recomendations implemented if they are implemented at all. I guess he just looked at it and saw that it made sense. Now I get to use either tool and in the process further my own career by becoming adept in another language. Not to mention working towards making our current site a shocase for PHP in a large commercial enterprise envirionment. PS It may have helped that the CIO considers M$ to be the devil. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
