On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:40:56AM -0700, Myles Wakeham wrote: > I've been struggling to find a way to compete in this market with > development environments like FPC/Lazarus, simply because although I > want do it in those technologies, the lack of tools, frameworks, etc. > means that I lose out bidding for those projects against other more > established frameworks (ie. ASP.NET developers, PHP, Ruby, etc.). > Simple things like session management, cookies, WYSIWYG HTML > development, etc all seems to require so much time to establish first > before I can start to craft the application, that I'm immediately > uncompetitive against others - particularly when the client has the > option to offshore outsource the development against a production line > 'farm' of developers in other countries.
I knew that these people http://href.com/webhub:2126869336 were working on a FPC port a year back. IIRC they support both IIS and Apache. Also have a look at similar Delphi products (there must be at least a handful) that might have developed a FPC port meanwhile. > 2. Performance is really poor. We built a small FPC native Linux > solution for doing multi-million row set processing and found a 25x > speed improvement with it doing its work vs. PHP native. There is no > doubt that FPC is a better option for the end code here. That is very strange. > is simply that using Visual Studio/ASP is a 'quick & dirty' way to get > the job done and many of these clients, particularly small businesses, > seem to be willing to accept that since they really have no internal > knowledge of software development and rely on the consultants to tell > them what is best for them. >From the Delphi webapps view, I think ASP.NET is a way more logical choice and/or migration option than PHP. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
