Experts predict that PHP will be more popular than Java

MarcAndreessen, co-founder of Netscape, predicted at the Zend/PHP conference held on Wednesday (10/19) that the simple PHP descriptive language writing tool was developed in the Web-based exploitation program, it will be more popular than Java. SunMicrosystems at 199

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, predicted at the Zend/PHP conference held on Wednesday (10/19) that the simple PHP descriptive language writing tool was developed on the Web-based exploitation program, it will be more popular than Java.

After Sun Microsystems published Java in 1995, its friendly interfaces made it easier for engineers to design software and were welcomed by engineers. However, in the past ten years, Java has been widely used, instead, it becomes less easily controlled. Marc Andreessen pointed out that the current Java may be more difficult to learn than C. At the same time, PHP inherits the simple energy of Java and provides a program development environment that is easier to use than Java.

PHP is an open source code project, which contains the descriptive language engine that simplifies the program, a large link library, and a company specializing in PHP development, for example, Zend has a PHP product set, programming tools, and technical support service.

Andreessen's insights may be hard to win the approval of Java fans. At present, there are still millions of engineers dedicated to Java, 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 it will not participate in new language functions to compete with other languages, this is obviously not the case with Java.

In addition, the power of PHP is not small. Currently, about 22 million of websites use PHP, including Yahoo! Lufthansa is waiting for the name of the website, the number is growing, 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, personal computers, 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, showed that even though Oracle sales can simultaneously fulfill Java and PHP Java server and database software, it is adding an additional new effect to 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 implements Java and PHP at the same time. the core system is composed of Java, compared to all the visible exploitation programs on the site, Java is more like controlling the system level.

Like other open source code projects such as Linux and Apache, PHP is also protected by important 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, the actions of IBM and Oracle are like endorsement for PHP. even these two factories support PHP and prove that PHP may be a good thing.