--- Douglas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my University, people in charge of approving the > graduation works advocate Microsoft's technologies. > They don't believe in the free software movement or > the open source movement. Some guys tried to develop a > system using PHP and those people made them change to > ASP.NET. They say because "It's the future". According > to them it's where the money is.
It is disappointing to me that a university exists that focuses on where the money is rather than educating students. While I disagree with their prediction of the future, I think it is irrelevant anyway. If they were to choose PHP based on its promising future, it would be a better choice but for the wrong reason (the "right" choice is to let the students choose their platform, since it should be irrelevant to the lessons being taught). Of course, my argument is moot if you are speaking of a vocational school or something that is intended to teach applied skills, but I wouldn't call such a school a university. These types of educational institutions are great, but they have a much different purpose. I would rather a university let the students choose their own platform, since people are going to be most passionate about learning in an environment that they choose. Besides, as I mentioned above, the platform should be irrelevant. If you want to teach students to learn to program for the Web, you have failed if they cannot apply what they have learned to any language - PHP, mod_perl, ColdFusion, Java, etc. To answer your original question, I suppose you can search zend.com for some sort of comparison, but I am afraid you may be wasting your effort. It sounds like your university has some fundamental misnuderstandings about education, and that is going to be difficult to resolve. Good luck. Chris ===== Become a better Web developer with the HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
