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They showed benchmarks between the PHP 5.2 and 5.3 on windows and the
difference was pretty impressive.<br>
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That's all fine if you are running windows in your production
environment, but why would you want to do that an pay all the licence
costs for running a windows server.... <br>
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Mike Tipping wrote:
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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The
SQL server driver is currently for windows php only.<br>
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The issue here is that Microsoft are only going to write code that runs
on Windows. It will need to be ported to run with the other versions of
PHP so it will take a Linux developer to convert the Windows code to
Linux. In the case of the MSSQL server driver I can’t see many Linux
developers seeing the need so maybe it won’t happen. PHP is part of
their “open source technology centre” so I guess the code is all
available to the community. <br>
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PHP 5.3 is the first version that Microsoft have been involved with and
they have had to rewrite a large part of it as the source code was lost
back in PHPv3 and prior to 5.3 only 3 people know how to build PHP on
windows which is why it was always late being released. They showed
benchmarks between the PHP 5.2 and 5.3 on windows and the difference
was pretty impressive.<br>
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On 6/3/09 10:22, "Andy Cowan" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:andy@w4.co.uk"><andy@w4.co.uk></a> wrote:<br>
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style="font-size: 14px;">Not just a pinch of salt – am I the only one
that finds this a bit worrying?<br>
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The post also included the line “</span></font><span
style="font-size: 12px;">(but possibly only if the windows version of
PHP)” – one of the best things about PHP so far is its cross platform
portability, and it would be typical of them to start making the
windows flavour of PHP the only real alternative, whilst the other
platforms remain as poor cousins. At the moment, we develop on Windows
and Mac and deploy to Linux, without any trouble at all. <br>
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I have no evidence of this – I wasn’t at PHP London, anyone that was
there able to reassure me? Or do I need to dig out that Ruby book?
(only kidding!)<br>
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A.<br>
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</span><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>From:</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk%5D">mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Lovell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 March 2009 10:15<br>
<b>To:</b> West Midlands PHP User Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Phpwm] wysiwig editor<br>
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> “Microsoft are taking PHP very seriously and if you have any
thoughts, email them and they will listen” or so the bloke says.<br>
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Mmm, I'll take that with a pinch of salt. It may have been a good few
years since we had a new Halloween document but that doesn't mean
they've changed their tune.<br>
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