[Zope] Any comments from ex-PHP developers?

[Philip Kilner]

Hi Bryan,

In article <BEEHJMMMOGNIPHGPIKENAEFBCFAA.Bryan@capitanoweb.com>, Bryan 
Capitano wrote:
> PHP is still WAY ahead of Zope in terms of support
> and deployment on Unix by Unix network administrators. In my market niche,
> the support ratio for PHP:Zope is something like 50:1.  No hard feelings,
> but as an entrepreneur, I cannot afford to ignore this single fact.
>

Interesting take.

Of course, if you are providing a hosted solution (e.g. providing a service 
as well as / instead of selling a product), then this problem goes away...

I was once involved in an e-Commerce product based on a proprietary (and, as 
it turned out, extremely flaky) script engine. Of course, we had 
automatically priced ourselves out of the market for any work except that 
calling for a dedicated server, because hosting operations were v. wary of 
the engine.

Value of script engine over and above Perl / Python / PHP = 0%

Contribution of script engine to demise of product and company = 100%

Lesson learned = If you must pick your own tools, provide an end-to-end 
solution and reap the benefit of your choice yourself...

YMMV!

Regards,

PhilK

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:50 GMT @ Ganesh

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