Comments on: Microsoft loves PHP, at long last! (or does it?)

By: tobmaster

tobmaster — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:26:30 +0000

@giunta_getano: No the way back won’t work that easily. Because once your customers are migrated it will be much harder to get them back to another plattform. Especially when its MS.

By: giunta_gaetano

giunta_gaetano — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:33:07 +0000

@tobmaster: even though such tactics might very well be in Ms chords, here they are playing catchup to the technology most used / with most mindshare in web development.
One more sell of an IIS server is good for Microsoft, even if it has php onboard instead of .net, because it is one linux server less.
As soon as they start making php support flaky, the majority of web developers will turn back to their cherished LAMP stack rather than switch to .net.

By: tobmaster

tobmaster — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:28:39 +0000

And as soon as they conquered a major share in the webserver market they will kick PHP out by cutting proper FastCGI support.
Then the php developers will run into problems getting their solutions deployed at customers and have to switch to .net

Call me a gloomster but I belive its their strategy

By: Mariuz

Mariuz — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:14:48 +0000

i would replace any fastcgi/iis/mssql combination with an proper WAMP or LAMP system , it works better and is more stable

http://www.alberton.info/firebird_php_windows.html
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

By: David Salisbury

David Salisbury — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:00:52 +0000

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By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:45:42 +0000

Microsoft likes money, PHP has a lot of developers creating sites with LAMP, etc. As a former FoxBase/FoxPro guy, PHP is pretty easy language to pick up from that experience.

I think Microsoft sees their web serving client base dropping as people go to PHP and then transition to Linux to run it, as PHP works so well on that platform, and when there they will likely go to MySQL or PostgreSQL. Having PHP and MSSQL on PHP better supported on their servers is a way to tell the developers you can do PHP and remain comfortable (a client) with Microsoft.

I just hope they don’t try to force an IE requirement as they build their PHP code libraries for MS developers.