Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 10:57

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From: "Paul Ardeleanu" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web
2.0 business applications?


>
> On 16 Nov 2007, at 10:55, Mark Pawelek wrote:
>
>>
>> Probably the platform you're currently using. There is no 'best
>> platform'
>> because the platform will depend upon the clients business needs (which
>> depends upon the size, scale of the application being developed, etc.)
>> and
>> developer's skillset. There are some deficiencies with php which make
>> it a
>> difficult choice for huge websites; but those problems are not specific
>> to
>> Web 2.0 [I won't bother reading the forum for the next day as the
>> PHPers
>> here (the majority here) will go mad at what I just wrote].
>>
>
> Yes, the best platform is the one you know best.
> From the business point of view, in London at least, PHP and Java are
> widely used and Ruby is growing strong.
> PHP can be used for huge website. I'm currently involved in couple of
> sites that have 10k unique visitors a day and it's working well. Also, in
> couple of weeks, a big sites (can't tell the name yet) is going to
> re-launch using PHP and the traffic is expected to be huge (it is a very
> popular high street magazine).
>
> Paul

I admit to being wrong on PHP scaling - in my defence I plead prejudice. My
prejudices against PHP relate to the overall design (or lack of it). See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Criticism - I'm not the only one who finds
problems with it.