Dan Zambonini, posted on O’Reilly Network about the total cost of using PHP. In conclusion :
This sounds more negative than I imagined it would have. It’s not meant to be - I’m very happy with the progress PHP has made over the last few years (finally, native Unicode support is coming!).
Short answer
PHP Cost $0.00
Long answer
Dan pointed to two times to recruitment, personally I never faced this problem. Maybe because I’m more in touch with the PHP community ? Filtering CVs costs money of course, but I used to know a lot of developers so in case there is a job offer it’s very easy to send CV to the right persons. It’s better than advertising and then filter thousands of offers, if you get thousands ?? cause I’m not sure ! Good PHP developers are rare these days, and they are almost all known. I think filtering CVs will be more difficult with Ruby, .NET or J2EE, I saw CVs with lot of certifications etc and when you talk whith the guy and see his work he’s a newbie who still have difficulties to type on keyboard.
The second point about Recruitment I didn’t understand it, so if someone can point me what this have to do about total cost of PHP ?
About the windows boxes, i’m from the ones who don’t like them ( even that I’m working on a windows box now ). I always suggest to run PHP on a linux box rather than a windows, not because windows support is bad, but because windows in my opinion is bad as a web server. This have been said, PHP is offering a better windows support with the version 5, and today there is even a PECL4WIN repository so you can download easily extensions for windows. Also Linux hosting cost much less than windows hosting. With windows I guess you’ll need an SQL server too ? so two servers, a first web server and the second one for the database … Using windows is what I call an additional cost !
I think there is already answers for all other points. A Small comparative to .NET and J2EE or Ruby and you’ll see the “real cost” of PHP
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