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 Email: phil@xfr.co.uk / Phone, Voicemail & Facsimile: 07092 070518 Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. - Chinese saying