Ask About PHP

Later this week I’ll be attending a talk on interoperability, organised by Microsoft. A friend of mine working at the local Microsoft office is organising the event. He was asking me to help spread the word about the event.

We got talking and from what he tells me about his job as an ‘Evangelist’, I get the distinct feeling that Microsoft is aiming to swing those companies with mixed platforms to using more MS-centric solutions, “because MS products enables technical interoperability out of the box with other vendors”.

That got me thinking about which is better, companies running different technology platforms versus those that focuses on a specific platform?

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We’ve all encountered it before, and we’ve all asked this question in one way or another. I see it appearing in Yahoo Answers every now and then, and I see similar platform comparison in blogs I read. Its clear this issue is still quite relevant today and will continue to be tomorrow.

So which is better? PHP or .NET?

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A buddy of mine, Chris, recently did a presentation about Microsoft’s efforts to embrace non-MS technology - like PHP. This presentation was held during the December meet-up of the Singapore PHP User Group.

His video presentation was about an hour long, and covered the following topics:

• SQL Server PHP driver
• Open XML and PHP
• Cardspace and PHP
• Live Services and PHP
• Silverlight and PHP
• Server Core , IIS7, PHP and MySQL

So, go ahead and watch the video…

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