[TriLUG] PHP

[U. Jason Gloege Jr.]

i *THINK* that the "isn't going anywhere" was to be taken in the form
of "Isn't going away any time soon", as opposed to "Is stagnating"...
but perhaps that's just me.

j

On 4/28/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "PHP is a powerful, popular scripting language that isn't going anywhere..."
> 
> hmmmm... I guess that's opinion.  more and more people are pushing for
> it and I see it used in more places more often and sometimes even
> surprisingly so.  Like "wow, even they are using PHP, cool!" kinda
> thing.  I'd personally highly recommend PHP.  It is very powerful and
> versitile.
> 
> David McD
> 
> On 4/28/05, Jim Wright <wrightjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cate,
> > If you are looking simply for market opportunities, then .net is
> > probably the winner ...at the moment.  Doing a quick search in the
> > Raleigh area on Monster:
> > php-16 hits
> > vb.net - 26 hits
> > .net - 59 hits
> > That said, PHP is a powerful, popular scripting language that isn't
> > going anywhere...but it will be a while till corporations are asking
> > for projects in anything other than .NET or J2EE("java" gets 142 hits
> > in the Raleigh area).  I think you will see a lot of small to medium
> > size companies taking advantage of technologies like PHP in the near
> > future.  One big advantage to PHP is the wealth of open source
> > applications that are available (especially content management
> > systems...my current favorite is drupal).
> > -jim
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