Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

[Jim Winstead]

On Dec 05, Greg Cope wrote:
> > But, you all know that php pretty much takes over. Why? For two reasons:
> > 1) initial corporate pushing (press/ads)
> > 2) once well known, the word of the mouth does the rest.
> 
> Well go back 2 / 2 1/2 years and PHP was little known.

what is even funnier is that if you go back that far and look at
the php mailing lists back then, you'll find the exact same
conversations. :)

how did php become so popular? so many hosting companies offered
it as part of their hosting. fortunately for php, it targets a bit
more of a niche (generating dynamic content) than mod_perl does
(writing apache modules in perl) so offering it as part of a hosting
package on shared servers is quite a bit easier.

(of course, this only addresses scaling to a breadth of users, not
scaling into the enterprise area. that just requires real marketing
and hype.)

jim

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