Re: [XPOST from WDSCI-L] Webfacing out, EGL in

David Gibbs wrote:

I would venture to guess that most organizations that use basic PHP (on any platform) do not have a support contract with Zend.

Lots of general PHP support available on the 'net. I suspect most organizations avail themselves of that.

Not sure what your point is here. I don't consider basic PHP to be a viable production web application environment any more than I consider LAMP to be a replacement for an i. That's why I brought up support in the first place. Everything you write with EGL or Java using WDSC or RDi or RDi-SOA is in the end supported by IBM. That's one of the reasons I'm so fond of EGL; the support from the development team is very, very good, as is always the case with IBM development.

I'm less sanguine about the support received from open source communities. Sometimes it's very good, sometimes not so good. That's why when I talk about PHP as part of an enterprise environment, I am not considering an environment where PHP.net is your primary resource. Once you go down the pure open source route, then why not Ruby? Or Python? The possibilities are endless!

Some companies may be willing to do that, and I'm not saying it's wrong. But I'd guess that a lot of companies are unwilling to commit their mission critical systems to a web-supported open source development environment. And that's where the discussion of Java EE vs. RPG-CGI vs. PHP vs. EGL comes into play.

Joe