Experts predict that PHP will be more popular than Java

MarcAndreessen, co-founder of Netscape, predicted at the ZendPHP conference on Wednesday (1019) that a simple PHP descriptive language writing tool was developed for Web-based applications, it will be more popular than Java. After SunMicrosystems published Java in 1995, due to the friendly interfaces of Java, engineers were more likely to design software, and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, announced it on Wednesday (10/19) the Zend/PHP conference predicted that a simple PHP descriptive language writing tool would be more popular than Java in the development of Web-based applications.

After Sun Microsystems published Java in 1995, the friendly interfaces of Java made it easier for engineers to design software and were welcomed by engineers. However, after ten years, Java has been added with powerful functions, it is not easy to operate. Marc Andreessen pointed out that the current Java may be more difficult to learn than C. At the same time, PHP inherits the simple spirit of Java and creates a program development environment that is easier to use than Java.

PHP is an open source code project, including a descriptive language engine that simplifies the program, a large link library, and a company dedicated to PHP development, for example, Zend has a set of PHP products, programming tools, and technical support services.

Andreessen's opinion may be hard to win the approval of Java advocates, because at present, there are still millions of dedicated Java engineers around the world, and hundreds of companies are involved in Java Community Process (JCP ), in JCP, we master the fate of Java. However, even IBM, which vigorously promotes Java and even uses Java as the core of WebSphere server software, thinks that the future of PHP will be better than that of Java.

Rod Smith, vice president of IBM's new network technology department, said "simple" is the biggest feature of PHP and will not add new language features to compete with other languages, this is obviously not the case with Java.

In addition, PHP is also powerful. Currently, about 22 million of websites use PHP, including Yahoo! , Lufthansa and other well-known websites, the number continues to increase, and 450 software engineers have the right to review any changes to the PHP software.

Compared with Java, PHP has many limits on its availability. it can only be used on network servers. Unlike Java, it can also be used on network servers, PCs, mobile phones, chip cards, or other devices.

In addition to competing in some aspects, Java and PHP depend on each other to some extent. Ken jacbs, vice president of Oracle product strategy, said that even if Oracle sales can execute Java and PHP Java servers and database software at the same time, it is adding an additional new feature for Java, to enable these two software projects to work collaboratively, more specifically, Java specification requirement 223 (JSR 223) will "assist in the construction of the bridge between the Java community and the PHP community 」.

Marc Andreessen of Ning, a website that published photos and other content just a few days ago, also said that Ning also runs Java and PHP at the same time. the core system is composed of Java, compared to all the visible applications on the site, Java is more like an operating system level.

Like other open source code projects such as Linux and Apache, PHP is also protected by major computer industry manufacturers, for example, both IBM and Oracle are committed to developing programs that allow PHP software to retrieve their own databases. In fact, IBM and Oracle act like they endorse PHP. even these two factories support PHP, proving that PHP may be a good thing.