Probably the best response to him would be to point him to Sun's own survey
results. I remember reading about they surveyed their own customers asking
who used JSP and the results ended up being a VERY small percentage. If
their own customers don't use them does it really bode well for them?
Jeff Pearson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Deliduka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:31 PM
> To: PHP List
> Subject: [PHP] The future of PHP
>
>
> A little background... Skip to "THE JIST" if you wanna make this quick.
>
> I am on this webmaster's list where most of the people are fairly new
> webmasters. They're just getting the hang of things. I am probably one of
> the only advanced ones on there (not to toot my own horn really)
> and I'm one
> of two who use PHP (the other is just learning.)
>
> I tout PHP and MySQL as awesome, which they are, but I don't say
> they're the
> only technology out there.
>
> There is another guy, a kid, who is a major Java guy and he's BIG into XML
> and JSP.
>
> Some guy on this list asked what a good dynamic web solution is, I
> immediately chimed in and said PHP was great, free, and on most all linux
> hosts. Told him how powerful it was and what could be done with it.
>
> This kid chimes in and says, something to the affect of that if the guy
> wants to live in the past and not let his website go anywhere
> then he should
> go with PHP but JSP is the wave of the future and it's more powerful, and
> has the backing of the almighty Sun and the Open Source community
> (as if PHP
> doesn't).
>
> THE JIST
>
> So, the jist is, what does PHP have to offer to the web in the future? I
> think it's still a viable option that will be around for at least another
> 6-7 years. This kid thinks it's shelf life is another 3. What do ya'll
> think?
>
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