Ok. Sorry, guys. Usually I'm trying to avoid "one vs. another" discussions. I prefer to stop on "project requirements" point, which Bill highlighted below.
I always glad to see you visiting my site and sending me emails. Sincerely, Alex On 10/8/07, Bill Karwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Rob. If your team and project have a significant > investment in .NET, then use .NET. If you're in the minority, and the > rest of the team are .NET advocates, then suck it up and learn .NET. > > The cost of re-tooling, re-training, and adjusting your team's culture > to the new language and framework is so expensive that it'll probably > cancel out any productivity advantage the other technology may have. An > organization should switch technologies only if there is some compelling > benefit, such as a required capability that the new language can do > easily, but which is grievous or simply impossible in the old language. > > One can make arguments about minor technical advantages PHP & ZF may > have over .NET. But I don't think there is any such point that could be > called "compelling" (except with respect to specific project goals). So > the non-technical arguments should be the deciding factors, such as > those regarding licences, cost, and team culture. > > Regards, > Bill Karwin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:20 AM > > To: fw-general@lists.zend.com > > Subject: Re: [fw-general] .Net or Zend Framework? > > > > rogeson wrote: > > > This is of course a no-brainer to me, but my current task is to > > > convince the company I work for to build our next product using the > > > Zend Framework instead of .Net, and there are a lot of .Net > > enthusiasts here. > > > > > > Does anybody have any good arguments as to how and why > > using PHP and > > > the Zend Framework is a superior choice to .Net? Has anybody had > > > convince their organization of the same sort of thing? > > > > > > > > For me, it would depend on the team. You can build great web > > projects in .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, Lisp and even Ruby. > > > > If my team knew .NET inside out, then I'd build the product > > using .NET and vice-versa for PHP. It's expensive to throw > > away all your code, experience and knowledge of one language > > for the promise of greener grass. > > > > > > A more complicated question is should a PHP shop which has > > it's own set of libraries & glue framework move to the Zend > > Framework? This is much harder to answer due to having to > > weigh the cost of losing the investment in your current > > solution against the possible benefits of more productivity > > and less bugs due proper separation of concerns. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Rob... > > > -- http://www.alexatnet.com/ - consulting, blog, articles and support for PHP, ZF, JavaScript and web development.
