Re: IBM Bets PHP Is Open Source's Next Big Thing

Agreed.  But see what they did again?  Take open source and
close it up and let us use it.  At least they can't charge
for it, being open source.

They did it with Apache and Eclipse (maybe others... no big
deal).

I actually agree with closing it up.  From a software
support standpoint it really offers a lot more stability.
 I know, I've tried distributing open source.  :)

Brad

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:06:00 +0000
 Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 06:27, Bartell, Aaron L. wrote:
> >
>
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60403410
> > 
> 
> NEXT big thing??? where have they been?
> 
> <Quote from the article>
> Zend Technologies' PHP scripting language was designed to
> help
> programmers without advanced Java or Microsoft C#
> expertise build
> applications that tap into those database services.
> </Quote>
> 
> PHP dates back to 1995 (the same year Java was
> introduced).  PHP as we
> know it today goes back to around 1997.  C# goes back to
> what, 2000?
> 
> PHP is a great language for designing web pages.  Very
> easy to learn and
> use.  You can even write fully OO code with PHP.  It has
> a lot of
> functionality and integrates well with the databases it
> supports, like
> PostgreSQL and MySQL.  Maybe this little manuever will
> finally get us
> integrated iSeries support:
> 
> <Quote>
> Although IBM will offer Zend Core for IBM for free, the
> software's code
> itself will not be open source and will be subject to use
> restrictions
> because it will include drivers for IBM's DB2 commercial
> database
> system.
> </Quote>
> 
> In either case, I think this is good news.
> 
> Joel
> http://www.rpgnext.com
> 
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