NYCPHP Meetup

[edward potter]

True Story:

Startup spends 3 million over 18 months trying to offer a Java
solution.  Can't get it to work. PHP programmer comes in,  does 90% of
the project over the weekend. Ask VC, lets get the thing out the door.
 VC says has to be written in Java, programmer says "WTF?".  Makes no
sense at all.  Why Java?  VC says,  "We heard Java was the buzz. I
have zero interest in programming languages _ as long as I can say we
used "Java, Java, Java" to our investors, I keep on getting paid."

Needless to say 3 months later they folded.  25 people out of work.

Food for thought!   :-) ed

On 8/5/05, Jeff Siegel <jsiegel1 at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> <snip>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of Steve Manes
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:26 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] FW: Is the web's love affair with PHP over?
> 
> <snip>I know from experience that Indian outsource
> companies have little interest or investment in open source languages
> like PHP and Perl.  Java, ASP and .NET rule there, possibly because the
> developers learned their craft through universities and commercial
> training/certification courses.
> <end snip>
> 
> Agreed. Having spent some time myself drinking the Microsoft Kool-Aid...I
> know that it is difficult - at least initially - to see things in
> non-Microsoft terms.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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