[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Tim Williams]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, David Goodwin wrote:

> Yes, Rob also spoke to the Microsoft guys, and it did sound very much
> like you could only e.g. use the new SQLServer driver, if you're running
> PHP on windows....

How many non-windows PHP systems are likely to want to connect to 
SQLServer ? I have yet to come accross an outfit using SQLServer with 
linux webservers, though I suppose a few do exist. I can't see that this 
is likely to disadvantage many people.

On a more general front, I think there is an element of comercial reality 
here. M$ would prefer you to be using .NET, but they have recognised that 
PHP is now to big to ignore and that if it dosn't run well on the M$ 
software stack, it's going to drive Linux, mysql/postgres and everything 
else into previously M$ only shops which want to use PHP based software.

M$'s interest in PHP seemed to start up about the same time they got 
interested in Moodle, M$ paid for the development of the database 
abstraction layer in Moodle, which enabled Moodle to operate with any DB, 
rather just MySQL (and to a lesser extent postgres). This came about the 
same time that M$ put time and money into improving PHP performance on 
IIS. I've noticed that most of the colleges that have been running Moodle 
for a few years are on Apache/MySQL, while many of the more recent 
adoptees are on IIS/SQLServer, so Moodle was doing a very good job of 
driving opensource tools into colleges when there was only one viable 
server choice. IIS/SQLServer is still an inferior platform for Moodle, but 
it now seems to be 'good enough' to persuade many M$ only shops that there 
is no need to bring in a 'foreign' operating system to run the moodle 
server.

Tim W

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