PHP, fresh salted fish?

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50,000 website pushes PHP Zhuluzhongyuan to challenge Java Enterprise market
The Php/zend 2005 technology conference was held in California in Wednesday, according to foreign media quoted by the Conference's experts, the website scripting language PHP is no longer a simple tool to develop small things. After years of development, PHP has relied on its simple and powerful features to win the support of massive developers, and with the launch of the Zend PHP runtime framework and the release of new versions, PHP is targeting the enterprise market and playing a positive battle with Java.

"We think PHP has been able to handle enterprise-class development applications," said Ken Jacobs, Oracle's vice president for product strategy. "Java and PHP are competing on the same level, which I think is a good thing," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation, open source organization. "In the past, the Eclipse Foundation has been using Java-based open source tools.

According to Zend's chief executive, Doron Gerstel, there are currently 50,000 Web sites in the world that have been developed using PHP, including the internet giant Yahoo. Yahoo even has standardized PHP, Zend People think this helps to change the PHP traditional "simple scripting language" image.

PHP even has an impact on traditional, strong programming languages. Zend, a technology senior at the company, says there are already several C-language extensions written for PHP, Microsoft's. NET Framework also has an extension component for PHP. Zeev Suraski, chief technology officer at Zend, said: "PHP is no longer a beautiful language for toys or small things. It is clear that we can support Yahoo on the largest site on the Internet. ”

PHP has traditionally been considered a poor upgrade performance. At the Conference, technical experts countered the claim. PHP's old users, e-mail developer Omiti's technical vice President George Schlossnagle said: "If you work hard enough, any technical performance can be improved, if not given enough attention, any excellent technology (facing higher application load) will nationalists Madison. ”

It is reported that the new version of PHP5.1 will be published next month, PHP 6 will be launched next year. Version 5.1 will provide a faster compilation engine with improved database integration and data type support. 6.0 Edition highlights the internationalization features, for multi-language PHP application development.

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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, predicted at the zend/php meeting in Wednesday (10/19) that simple PHP descriptive language authoring tools would be more popular than Java in the development of web-based applications.

After Sun Microsystems published Java in 1995, because Java's friendly interface made it easier for engineers to design software, they were welcomed by engineers, but 10 years later Java was added to a powerful feature that made it difficult to operate. Marc Andreessen points out that Java is probably more difficult to learn than C + +, while PHP inherits the simplicity of Java and creates a program development environment that is easier to use than Java.

PHP is an open source project, which includes a descriptive language engine that simplifies the program, a large library of links, and a company that specializes in PHP, such as Zend, which sells PHP packaged products, program authoring tools, and technical support services.

Andreessen's view may be difficult to win the approval of Java advocates, because at this stage there are still millions of dedicated Java engineers, there are hundreds of companies involved in the Java Community Process (JCP), JCP The fate of the CPC and Confederacy Java. But even IBM, which is aggressively nurturing Java, or even Java as the core of WebSphere server software, believes that PHP's future will be better than Java.

"Simplicity" is the biggest feature of PHP, and it doesn't add new language features to compete with other languages, says Mr Rod Smith, vice president of IBM's new network technology division, which is clearly not what Java is doing.

And, PHP is not a small force, currently about 22 million of the website uses PHP, including Yahoo!, Lufthansa and other well-known sites, the number and continue to increase, and 450 software engineers have the right to review any changes in the PHP software.

PHP is more restrictive than Java, and it can only be used on Web servers, unlike Java, and can be used on Web servers, personal computers, mobile phones, chip cards, or other devices.

Java and PHP In addition to competing in some ways, to a certain extent, also in each other on the long-term. Oracle Product Strategy Vice-president Ken Jacobs said, even if Oracle (Oracle) Sales executable Java and PHP Java server and database software, but is adding an additional new functionality for Java, so that the two software projects can work together, more specifically, Java The specification Requirements 223 (JSR 223) will "help build that bridge between the Java community and the PHP community".

Only recently published can share photos and other content site "ning" Marc Andreessen also said, now Ning also execute Java and PHP, where the core system is composed of Java, compared to the station all the visible applications are written by PHP, Java more like a Operating system level.

Like other open source projects such as Linux and Apache, PHP is now being blessed by major manufacturers in the computer industry, like IBM and Oracle, who are committed to developing programs that allow PHP software to capture its databases. In fact, IBM and Oracle acted as if they were endorsing PHP, and even the two companies supported PHP, proving that PHP might be a good thing.

Overall, PHP development is good, but I believe that for a long time in the future, PHP will not be able to shake the Java market

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