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My ears are ringing -- about PHPCon

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David Sklar mentioned my little
PHPCon rant and I saw a bunch of traffic coming this way.  Kinda weird. 
But it does provide me with an interesting opportunity... to get feedback from PHP
folks directly --

So I propose some questions that I discussed in my BOF at PHPCon, looking for more
feedback --

1.
How do you feel about Microsoft becoming more present in the PHP community? 
Whether through attending events, or sponsorships, or other?
2.
I know there is some demand for PHP on Windows (just ask Shane
Caraveo) -- what's your take?  What prevents from exploring it?  Anything
that could make it better?  Performance?  Features?  I heard lots of
very interesting ideas around this at PHPCon, what's your take?
3.
I'm a glutton for punishment, I survived Sterling
Hughes and Thies Arntzen ,
so I open up the general floor -- what do you want?  What do you think? 
Tell me and I promise to listen, that is all I can promise, but I think that is a
pretty good start.

I am going to be in Las Vegas for Nov 15-20th at COMDEX, and I think it is also ApacheCon
-- anyone going to be around?  Let me know, stop by our Booth (Visual Studio),
I'm planning to go visit yours too.

Ok enough blabbering.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2003
    http://www.zend.com/sun/Zend and Sun have teamed up. Now Sun pushes Java, and Microsoft pushes .Net. But Sun, I believe, has realized that if it can't convert certain people, they can at least work with them. What would I like to see?Something like this form Microsoft, working with Zend, or another PHP player to help make PHP more enterprise ready on the Microsoft platform.I appreciate Microsoft's approach to web services. Indeed, I just read today that while they won't port MS SQL to other platforms (a difficult task for little gain, I would imagine), they are making it accessible from other platforms.Personally, I think if Microsoft worked with a company like Zend to come up with an ideal Windows + IIS + PHP solution, many times people wouldn't say "We want to use PHP, so it's better to use *nix," which I hear often.