[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“PHP is now running over a million web sites and with good
reason. PHP is open source, it runs equally well on NT and UNIX,
it’s well documented. PHP is no doubt stealing market share from
Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, but the media has been unusually
quiet about the issue. Even as Apache’s success has become
front page news, PHP has gone largely unnoticed. Maybe
Microsoft wants to keep it that way.”
“Microsoft is very public with it’s worries about Linux and
Apache, but it has yet to say a word about PHP. This is somewhat
surprising given the capabilities and market share of PHP. With
it’s ability to run on NT and UNIX, PHP makes it easy to build
complex web sites which can run on either platform….”
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