is this odd, or is it me?..

octane

octane

I have issues, OK!
Does this link strike anyone as being a little odd?

Why would a pro Microsoft Windows website be using php, I wonder?

Oh the irony!..
 
In my experience, php is better in most cases.

I know a firm [run by one of my best friends] and they develop exclusively in asp.

I had a discussion with him a while ago, shortly after he took on a php / flash developer and started to retrain him in asp.

The guy was forever pointing out how easier it would be to do this / that in php and how many more features [libraries] they could call upon without having to buy in expensive and often buggy COM objects.

At the end of the conversation, he said that had he known about php in more detail _before_ he started out, he wouldn't have chosen asp.

Their overheads are massive, and the enormous burden of the Microsoft Tax doesn't help, either...
 
Whatever dude. PHP is like the best web language out there and neowin is an excellent site! So I dont think its the least bit weird. Just because its a site with Windows information doesnt mean it has to be hosted using a Windows OS, Software, etc....or ASP
 
drunkmac said:
Whatever dude. PHP is like the best web language out there and neowin is an excellent site! So I dont think its the least bit weird. Just because its a site with Windows information doesnt mean it has to be hosted using a Windows OS, Software, etc....or ASP
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OK, well let's look at it another way: what if Apple where to move all of their various websites onto Windows?

It's taking it to the extreme, but the point is, you walk the talk.

If I were running that web site, I'd be reluctant to use anything _other_ than asp / IIS.

How do you advocate one thing and then do the other?..
 
Well, if _Microsoft_ would switch to using UN*X based servers running Apache, MySQL and PHP and/or Perl, _that_ would be really odd. But other websites... I don't know about this one, but it's certainly cheaper to use Apache/PHP etc. on Windows than IIS. Liking Microsoft does not mean you drink everything they give you.
 
fryke said:
Well, if _Microsoft_ would switch to using UN*X based servers running Apache, MySQL and PHP and/or Perl, _that_ would be really odd.
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Maybe they ought to if their uptimes are anything to go by :D

fryke said:
But other websites... I don't know about this one, but it's certainly cheaper to use Apache/PHP etc. on Windows than IIS. Liking Microsoft does not mean you drink everything they give you.
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I like that. It's as well you don't eat with them, either. You'd need a stomach pump to get all the shit out of you...
 
octane said:
Does this link strike anyone as being a little odd?

Why would a pro Microsoft Windows website be using php, I wonder?

Oh the irony!..
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The app they bought/inherited from a company they merged with was PHP? The app designers were trained in PHP? It was better for the particular app they were running?

Some sites actually run a mix of ASP, PHP and even perl CGI scripts, depending on which developer wrote the app, other conditions above, etc.

This isn't that ironic, it's actually not bizarre at all...
 
And by the way, it's as ironic as some of the examples in the song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette and this post I'm writing.
 
fryke said:
And by the way, it's as ironic as some of the examples in the song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette and this post I'm writing.
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Lassen Sie das durch mich wieder laufen?..
 
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