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Joe Pluta wrote:
How many commercial PHP applications are making lots of money? If there are
a lot, then that's one issue. If not, then this is another instance of "run
free applications on your expensive server".
I honestly don't know how many make money if any do, but I am aware
that many arose out of LAMP. Google, Amazon, maps.yahoo.com... quite
a few.
But they aren't 'traditional' in the System i sense by any stretch
of the the imagination. Nor are some of the development requirements
traditional.
If I could credit this quote, I would. It's kept my eye on that area
of our business for some time --
“The reason why dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and PHP are so
important is key to understanding the paradigm shift. Unlike
applications from the previous paradigm, web applications are not
released in one to three year cycles. They are updated every day,
sometimes every hour. Rather than being finished paintings, they are
sketches, continually being redrawn in response to new data.”
Maybe MySQL and PHP on System i are good for _us_ simply by having
it thrust upon us. I might never create an app that actually uses
either one; but I'm much more likely to poke at them if they're
immediately available where I do my regular work.
Having them immediately available adds them to the clutter of
'tools' I keep in the back of my mind. When I am confronted by a
problem that's very different from ones I've handled previously, I
sometimes remember some little function that I never had a use for
before. And sometimes I'm very glad it was available.
Tom Liotta
midrange.com
