PHP Scales As Well As Java

mactari writes "Jack Herrington at the O'Reilly Network has had the audacity to claim that both PHP and J2EE architecture... are converging on the same design [regarding scalability]. Can it be that he's disproven the idea that 'Java scales and scripting languages don't' when he says, 'The idea that PHP does not scale is clearly false at the performance level'? Even if a little oversimplified (ignores horizontal scaling), it's an interesting comparison that takes a peek at the architecture beneath both hypes."

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where I stopped reading

[BigGerman]

"A page showing ten fields from twenty objects would make two hundred RMI calls before it was completed."
Sure if it was coded by former vb guy w/o a clue.
Even naive J2EE applications I saw would be smart enough to use a view object (containing all twenty business objects and their fields) to come back from the buisness layer in one call.
A person to use argument like this about J2EE scalability has no credibility whatsoever.