Comments on: .Net vs. PHP http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2009/07/net-vs-php/ It's About You, Not Us. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:22:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kj http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2009/07/net-vs-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 kj Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:59:32 +0000 http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/?p=973#comment-1389 <q cite="">Speed & Efficiency – The PHP language is faster and more stable than the various forms of .Net.</q> no its not. Speed & Efficiency – The PHP language is faster and more stable than the various forms of .Net.

no its not.

]]> By: Jeremy Pound http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2009/07/net-vs-php/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Jeremy Pound Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:36:52 +0000 http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/?p=973#comment-634 It's an important business question to ask yourself if you're building a large website that you plan on keeping around for a while - because few businesses ever change once they get started with a certain platform. And, the impact of the decision usually doesn't become eveident until months or years down the line. Whenever clients or developers ask why we build in PHP, I send them this article: http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-php-won.html Before I found that, I spent years trying to explain why it's the right business decision for our clients (to use php), even though there are more efficient languages out there (ruby + python). Businesses have to weigh cost of support and abundance of developers when choosing a programming language. Also, because of its accessibility, there are a lot of creative people out there doing some great things with PHP. Hope that adds to the conversation. Jeremy It’s an important business question to ask yourself if you’re building a large website that you plan on keeping around for a while – because few businesses ever change once they get started with a certain platform. And, the impact of the decision usually doesn’t become eveident until months or years down the line.

Whenever clients or developers ask why we build in PHP, I send them this article:
http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-php-won.html

Before I found that, I spent years trying to explain why it’s the right business decision for our clients (to use php), even though there are more efficient languages out there (ruby + python).

Businesses have to weigh cost of support and abundance of developers when choosing a programming language.

Also, because of its accessibility, there are a lot of creative people out there doing some great things with PHP.

Hope that adds to the conversation.

Jeremy

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