> I've some troubles with a competitor that says to my client that an > Apache/PHP4/MySQL solution on > Linux is unable to produce an e-commerce website. This person > proposal is ASP/M$ SQLServer on an NT 4 Server... > > Can you send me some URLs that illustrate the ability to an > Apache/PHP4/MySQL platform to manage a simple e-commerce website: > - Products Catalog > - Billing system > - Connection to a secure cr.card payment process > > Thanks in advance. > -- > ---------------------------------- > Stéphane Pinel Stéphane, You might point out that IBM is investing US $1 billion in Linux this year, that NASA uses Linux on notebooks on the space shuttle for flexibility and stability (I lost the reference some time ago), that recently NASA switched from Oracle (far better reputation than MS-SQL already) to MySQL because they believe that "open-source software will give agencies the opportunity to get better software at a lower cost" (http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1204/pol-nasa-12-04-00.asp), that Apache is used on 60% of the world's web servers, and that IIS, which is used on only 20% of them, has not increased market share in three years (see http://www.netcraft.com/survey/), and that PHP has grown from one user (Rasmus Lerdorf, the inventor) to being used on over five million web sites (over half of the Apache sites) in the six years since it's birth, which implies 30% of the sites on the internet are using it (http://www.WebDevelopersJournal.com/articles/why_php.html). There's a small sample (a few hundred of the sites using PHP) listing, *including e-commerce sites*, at http://www.php.net/sites.php . Billy http://RhinoComputing.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
