[thelist] "PHP or ASP?" dilemma, strict company rules, and ahybrid web site.

[Tim Beadle]

thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org wrote on 18/08/2004 15:49:35:
> > > I've been using PHP/MySQL for web development for 3+ years and I 
> > > prefer using PHP for any kind of web development. Executive officer 
> > > told me to use MS technologies, so I may not use PHP.
> 
> Is he an executive officer for MS?

AFAIK, you don't have to work for MS to be blinkered into always 
specifying their technologies. You know: "no-one ever got fired for buying 
IBM^H^H^H Microsoft". As much as I might disagree with the EO's position, 
it's hard to do much about it.

There is so much distrust of non-MS tech in the MS-community, much as 
there is distrust of MS stuff in the FOSS world.

Anyway, that's his situation, and if the EO says so, then there's not a 
lot he can do, is there? Apart from find alternative, PHP-friendly 
employment I suppose.

Tim



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