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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. how about python? by same_old_story · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I stuble across many articles on ibm developers network about python. seems like a lot of ibm hackers like it, but I never see the big blue showing any corporate support.
    is this a 'we do not want to upset java' thing, or is python imature for hard core web programming?

    1. Re:how about python? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Zope is basically the Lotus Domino for the 21st century. Makes easy things easy, hard things impossible, and ties it all together in a non-interoperable, proprietary, environment-specifc mess that will be impossible to migrate when the time comes. So it would be just the perfect thing for IBM to foist on customers.

  2. Are analysts worth their salaries? by coder.keitaro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "PHP, Perl and Python have been around for several years and their use appears to be growing"

    I mean, come on. Several years/i??
    Perl has been around since '87

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  3. What had "Websphere" been using? Java exclusively? by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've never programmed for "Websphere" before, but I had always thought that it was part of IBM's big [massive?] "Java as Middleware" initiative - a few years back, they were putting some serious muscle into marketing multi-million dollar AS400 boxen to compete in that arena [systems that, for all intents and purposes, were really more mainframe-ish than boxen-ish].

    Is the gist of this news item that IBM is abandoning Java for PHP? [And yes, I did skim TFA.]

  4. Best quote from article by mgkimsal2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM's push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry's inability to make Java very easy to use.

    "IBM's been so fed up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for years," the executive said. "They want people to build applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with Java, it just isn't happening."

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