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Number of Jobs by Programming Language
The Viking writes "I was curious about which programming languages are hot with employers, so I did an informal search of several job search engines. The results are interesting (to me, at least). Are these numbers relevant? We can certainly debate whether or not the online job search engines are representative of the actual employment landscape."
Now to me that is putting the cart before the horse. First you choose what software you want to run, then you choose the platform you run it on.
They've already got a cart AND horse and it's been moving along for years.
Yeah, Java could handle what they need as well, theoretically. In the real world, they already have *thousands* of machines running FreeBSD. Scrapping all of those to move to new hardware and OS just to THEN be able to port everything to Java is extremely costly, both hardware-wise and time-wise. The cost differential must not have been enough to counteract whatever supposed deficincies some people think PHP may have.
If they're really serious about Java, then can migrate things to PHP, then move those processes over to other platforms (on which Java will perform better) then migrate things to Java. Even if that go that route for some sections, it'll be years before it's complete.
So, Java is great in theory but when push comes to shove, PHP is the one which is getting the job done.
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