NYCPHP Meetup

[Jeff Siegel]

Wow! Good story!!! Is this a "publicly available" story (i.e., is there some
website that reports this)or is this not public knowledge?


Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of edward potter
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 8:34 AM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] FW: Is the web's love affair with PHP over?

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