Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Jochem Maas
Daniel Brown wrote: > {snip="all"} > >Actually, PHP is a phenomenal, scalable, and > brilliantly-extensible language. Yahoo!, > IBM, Google, and (of course) Zend are just a few of the multi-million > and billion dollar players. The company for whom I'm building web and > desktop-level, as w

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Jochem Maas
Alan Milnes wrote: > On 05/07/07, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 6. IBM, Oracle and others seem to be less sure about whether php will >> ever >> be a major player in the business solutions arena (often referred to as >> 'being enterprise ready') ... there may be some way to go in thi

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Brown
{snip="all"} Actually, PHP is a phenomenal, scalable, and brilliantly-extensible language. Yahoo!, IBM, Google, and (of course) Zend are just a few of the multi-million and billion dollar players. The company for whom I'm building web and desktop-level, as well, a multi-million dollar corpo

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread tedd
At 10:17 PM -0400 7/4/07, Mark Allen wrote: I had high hopes for it when I started down the path, and was glad to find this list thinking that it would be a great resource for using PHP to help solve BUSINESS issues but basically 80% of the questions have nothing to do with BUSINESS issues but "h

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Nathan Nobbe
I'll keep it in my toolbox for the simple, quick way to get something to the inter/intranet but other than that it's not ever going to be a major player in Real World business solutions. i usually take a statement of this nature to mean the person saying it doesnt know much about php. have you h

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Milnes
On 05/07/07, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 6. IBM, Oracle and others seem to be less sure about whether php will ever be a major player in the business solutions arena (often referred to as 'being enterprise ready') ... there may be some way to go in this sense but there are plenty of

RE: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I had high hopes for it when I started down the path, and was glad to find this list thinking that it would be a great resource for using PHP to help solve BUSINESS issues but basically 80% of the questions have nothing to do with BUSINESS issues but "how do I do X" questions which IMO shoul

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Jochem Maas
let's break this down shall we. 1. there is no such thing a business [programming] language (you can lie through your teeth and sell shit in any language ;-), although some language may be synonymous with business because of their frequent use to solve business specific logic problems. 2. busines

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Jason Pruim
I believe that any programming language is what you make of it... if you use it to write games, it's a games language Write webapps for your business, it's a business language... And this is by far the best resource I have found for getting answers to questions about PHP... It's taken a

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Stut
Mark Allen wrote: I had high hopes for it when I started down the path, and was glad to find this list thinking that it would be a great resource for using PHP to help solve BUSINESS issues but basically 80% of the questions have nothing to do with BUSINESS issues but "how do I do X" questions wh

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-05 Thread Zoltán Németh
hmm I work for a large multinational transporting/logistics company, and the complete business management/tracking/billing/etc system is written in PHP... and it is working with almost zero downtime since the last four or five years... however it does have bugs and flaws in it - but those are the d

Re: [PHP] PHP as a strategic BUSINESS language

2007-07-04 Thread Larry Garfield
Wow. If you're going to be a troll, try and come up with something even vaguely intelligent to say. :-) If you want a "language that solves business issues", try COBOL. *snicker* Programming languages are a tool to logic problems. People solve business problems using logic. Anyone who claim