I can't give you a URL but I can give you a testimonial. I spent 5 years
doing ASP development against a M$/$QL server. I've been doing PHP/MySQL
now for 6 months and hope I never have to go back. My main client has a
small site with about 2,000 catalog items in the MS/SQL database and another
150 static pages. The infrastructure they are running on is aging and it's
going to cost somewhere around $30k to upgrade all the HW/SW to Win2k/
SQL2k, etc. We are now in the process of rebuilding the entire site in
LAMP. It will be about $20k when you factor in my time to re-code in PHP but
the long-term benefits of not having to pay the M$ tax every year or two to
upgrade things is large.
Cal
http://www.calevans.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Billy Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OFF] URL of e-business websites that use MySQL/PHP4/Apache
> 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
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