I've noticed this question a fair bit, having to convince clients and employers of a technology.. DO you guys really have that much trouble selling php??
I tend to leave the development environment out of conversations all together and talk product features, scalability, promotion etc I do this with both the PHP and ASP projects I build. If you really need to convince someone then there the kind of person people who would really only need a name to associate things to. This list was posted a few days ago... > This list is designed to convice teh boss (no type-o). If your boss is a > bandwagon kind of guy, afraid to take risks, this is for you- er- him. And > you. Him in that he can read it, you in that if he accepts LAMP, you're life > will be a much more joyous existance ;) > > > > - -------------------------------- > Apache: > > By far the most popular web server, with 60.54% market share. Its > closest competitor, Microsoft's IIS, has 28.89%. If all variants of > each server are counted, Apache's install base increases to 62.17%, > while IIS manages 29.42%). Statistics are from > http://www.netcraft.net/survey > > Apache users: > Yahoo! > Amazon.com > AltaVista > BBC > mp3.com > SlashDot > HP > W3C > IBM > Verizon > FEMA > Infoseek > > > PHP: > > In April 2002, PHP overtook ASP as the #1 server-side scripting > language on the internet. In April, PHP was used by 24% of the > sites on the Internet. Over the past two years PHP has averaged > a 6.5% monthly growth rate. Source: zend.com/news/zendpr.php?id=49 > > PHP users: > Cisco > CMG > Vodafone > Motorola > Siemens > Ericsson > CBS > Unilever > Philips > BMC > NTT > Air Canada > Lufthansa > OnVista > Lycos Europe > Deutsche Bank > NASA > W3C > > > MySQL: > > It isn't as easy to determine which database a site uses, but here > is a list of sites that do use MySQL, according to MySQL.com: > > Yahoo! Finance > Texas Instruments > U.S. Census Bureau > NASA > Omaha Steaks > Slashdot > Cross Media Marketing Corp > Powell's Books > Department of Academic Information Systems > Avacom Net Services > Blue World Communications > CoreSense > Ericsson > handy.de > mobile.de > Nemo-Q > Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. > Virage > > > Linux: > > I can't find a list for this... I figured these out by trying big > sites that came to mind. I didn't encounter a single Microsoft site, > but I did get a few *BSD sites, and several Solaris sites. > > FBI > Google > Amazon > AltaVista > Slashdot > Verizon > FEMA > CNN > > > Security: > > Here's a list of security companies/groups that run any LAMP component: > Security Focus (LA) > Symantec (L) > CERT (LA) > Packet Storm (A) > FBI (L) > OSVDB (LA) > At Stake (LA) > Netcraft (LA) > TESO (L) > Phenoelit (LA) > Doxpara (LAP) > NGS Software (LAMP) > PivX (LAP) > Grey Magic (LAMP) > Phrack (AP) > *** -----Original Message----- From: Wee Keat [Amorphosium] [mailto:weekeat@;amorphosium.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:42 AM To: PHP [General] Subject: [PHP] How good is PHP to ASP? Hi all, I'm not too sure if this is the right place to get my answers but I really need to know this: How can I convince my clients that PHP is really good? I mean not a lot of non-programmers have heard of PHP language. Most of them only heard of things like C/C++, ASP and the like. So, how can I prove to them that PHP is a much better language to use? Can anyone point me to the right resources for me to show and prove to my clients? Thanks a lot and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. Yours, Wee Keat Chin ----------------------------------- "Don't find a fault; find a remedy" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
