Hello, Alain Samoun wrote: > > Manuel: > In all fairness to the Zend people, you can get the compiler for $600/year > or $50 per month.
The unlimited Zend Encoder Unlimited costs $2400. Actually, I don't see any other Zend Encoder purchase option. Anyway, like a lot of other PHP users, I am not interested in expensive commercial solutions, even less those that tie me to those products indefinetly. If people want to pay such fees to be fair to Zend or just to believe that what they got is good because it costed a lot of money, fine it is their problem. Now, it is true that a lot of people choose PHP because it is a free and easy solution for their developments but inlike with other languages there is no way to distribute a closed source version of their software. That is the proposal. This is about PHP, not Zend Encoder or comercial solutions. If people wanted to use Zend Encoder or any other commercial solutions, this thread would not have been even started. > If it still look too expansive to you, compared to the free perl compiler, > there is also a perl compiler that costs $5,000... Alain, be serious, Java compilers cost nothing. I know for a fact that a lot of people are discarding PHP because there is not an officially supported and free solution to compiler and distribute PHP application binaries when in Java and other languages that is a natural thing. This means that people drop PHP when they realize that it isn't as easy to protect their code to sell their applications. Until PHP developers realize that it is important to make it easy for PHP users to sell their applications, PHP will be seen as a less appealing solution. > Also, someone may be able to reverse the PHP code to C and create an exe > with it (like Perl) . And last, but maybe the future: Web Services with > SOAP? It should be not be that hard. There are Java bytecode to C converters, it should not be hard to make Zend bytecode to C conversion. Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
