PHP AND CORPORATE AMERICA

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 2003 @ 10:28 AM

As more and more corporate organizations embrace open source software and adoption of Linux and Apache becomes an option in the IT agenda, mission critical web applications written in PHP start to proliferate. Last Netcraft survey shows that Apache accounts for over 63% of the web server market across domains, while PHP reaches 26% of all domains on the Internet. All of those servers running PHP are Linux-based, right? Wrong.

To suit site owners need for more sophisticated web applications with the best possible return on investment, PHP is moving toward the Windows operating systems. No, it's not a contradiction. Some businesses can't afford the learning curve associated to assimilating Linux into the company dynamics. However, many of them might find running Apache on Windows an affordable alternative to Microsoft's Internet Information Server.

As a matter of fact, nearly 7% of all PHP servers run on Windows. Netcraft's survey of scripting languages developers show this is an increase of almost 100% over the past year. At that rate, PHP could easily overcome ColdFusion as the most popular non-Microsoft scripting language out there.

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