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IBM Backs PHP for Web Development

Posted by Zonk on from the echo-"free-languages-equal-profit" dept.

Christopher Reimer writes "C|Net is reporting that IBM will be getting behind the open-source language PHP for its WebSphere server software and tools. From the article: 'Big Blue's public commitment to PHP is significant because the company has the technical and marketing resources to accelerate usage of the open-source product.'" Evidently PHP is indeed becoming more popular.

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  1. Re:Market share by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 3, Informative

    the closest analog in OSS would be Tomcat

    The closest open source analog would be JBoss. Tomcat isn't really an application server, either, at least not the way the term is used conventionally in the industry. (It is kind of fuzzy, though.) Tomcat is a servlet container. A servlet container is a necessary (but not sufficient) part of a J2EE application server, but Tomcat by itself is not a J2EE application server. See my other posting for better things to compare WebSphere to.

    Eric
  2. Websphere == product line brand name by meatball_mulligan · · Score: 5, Informative

    The term "Websphere" could mean alot of different things. It is IBM's branding for all of their middleware and web related products:

    • Websphere Application Server(WAS)
      This is their J2EE application server. It plays in the sam space as BEA's WebLogic App Server, JBoss, etc. It's the cornerstone of their Websphere line and comes in many sizes and flavors, running on anything from a single server, to clusters of servers, to minis, to the Mainframe.
    • Websphere Studio Application Developer(WSAD)
      This is their primary J2EE development tool. It's built around the Eclipse framework IBM developed and released to open source, so their are also tons and tons of other tools that plugin to WSAD.
    • Websphere Portal Server(WPS)
      A portal and colaboration server built on top of WAS. WPS also includes a lot of the technologies that grew out of their Domino platform.
    • Websphere MQ
      IBM's Message Oriented Middleware foundation. (Formerly MQSeries)
    • Websphere Business Integration
      EAI
    • Websphere Commerce Server
      B2C
    • Websphere Everyplace
      mobile connectivity

    ... and on and on for about a hundred products. One of the few products not branded "Websphere" is their web server, an Apache distro, called simply "IBM HTTPD" or "IBM HTTP Server".

  3. Re:Power? Performance? Ease of Use? by cyranoVR · · Score: 3, Informative

    *SIGH* My point was that for some reason PHP is the only language I've learned that makes a big deal over "Magic Quotes." Either the PHP authors are onto something that it happens nobody else has caught onto after 5+ years (yeah, right) or they have introduced a feature that just confuses everybody and 99% of the time gets turned off anyway.

    How about instead of making coders puzzle over Magic Quotes related issues, we instead make them read an informative article on preventing cross site scripting / SQL injection. "Teach a man to fish..." etc.

    What is so hard to understand about that?