PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is moving into the enterprise at a rapid pace, the CEO of Zend Technologies stressed Tuesday during a keynote presentation at the 2008 Zend/PHP Conference (ZendCon) in Santa Clara, Calif.
Citing a list of enterprise users of the server-side scripting platform, including Kargo Mobile Technology and Shaklee, Zend CEO Harold Goldberg emphasized PHP growth. PHP has “grown up to be a mainstay enterprise language,” he said.
PHP is “poised for widespread enterprise adoption,” said Goldberg, whose company specializes in PHP tools.
“The community, the market, the partners, the ecosystems have never been better,” he said.
Goldberg offered brief PHP user profiles. Kargo, for example, had been using Java but found it could not expand without adding a lot of hardware. The company decided to redo its entire Web site using Zend Framework and now handles 400 percent more capacity, Goldberg said.
Job growth in the enterprise also is on the horizon. In the next five years, 40 percent of PHP jobs will be in the corporate environment, said Goldberg. During the next five to ten years, most business applications will move to a browser, presenting opportunities for PHP, he said. “What we’re seeing is more and more people, they’re [making] the choice of PHP,” said Goldberg.
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I think I’d rather have PHP hackers because java programmers are such primadonnas. The right way to do something may involve a crapload of memory, several redesigns and end up with a bloated ugly application that the end users end up hating.
It is why .net for the web is so popular. It is serverside, you can leverage javascript and it works, quickly.
I totally agree I love PHP! Nice comment!