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PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "It used to be that popular PHP applications would run more poorly on Windows Server than on a Linux or Unix servers, for which PHP had been optimized. Specialist in the PHP language Zend Technologies now says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run 'with performance and stability' on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. Previously, PHP 'didn't run as well as it should on Windows,' said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations."

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  1. Re: PHP Optimised for Windows Server 2008 by CheekyBastard · · Score: 1, Funny

    "with performance and stability"

    Excellent. This way, when it turns out to be false, they can always say: "We didn't mention 'good' performance.

  2. Re:FastCGI != Apache Module by mini+me · · Score: 2, Funny
    Very true. I once inherited a Ruby on Rails project that had code similar to this:

    @variable = eval("@#{params[:variable]}")
    I think I'd rather see SQL injection vulnerabilities.
  3. Re:Why not Apache? by RipSUp · · Score: 5, Funny

    They don't want your LAMP to become a WAMP, they want it to become a WIMP (Windows/IIS/MSSQL/PHP)

  4. Re:Why not Apache? by jjrockman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you mean Windows IIS MySQL PHP/Perl? Or, WIMP for short.

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  5. Re:Misleading by muszek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Food? Are car analogies not good enough for you?

  6. Re:Other incapatiblities by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 1, Funny

    It really makes me wonder, why on earth developers don't all switch to the mac? Price is definitely not an excuse anymore, and compatibility issues are tales from ages ago.

    Because the Mac is an irksome piece of shit with a bad UI and uninteresting hardware.

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  7. Re:Optimise your spell check by FyRE666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    President Bush? Is that you?

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  8. Optimized double misery by 200_success · · Score: 3, Funny

    PHP and Windows? They each suck enough on their own.

  9. Re:Misleading by discogravy · · Score: 2, Funny

    lots of people eat in their cars, but who prepares food in their cars?

    I suppose you could make a very complex analogy about tailgate parties or something, but it really seems like too much trouble.

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