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heather.fraser
I've invested many years into Java. I do not regret it - knowing
Java has opened up so many more jobs and opportunities for me. We
wouldn't dream of using anything else for enterprise middleware.
However, on the website development front, you look at websites like
flickr and the extensive contributions behind the Joomla, Drupal &
Wordpress projects and think "maybe being best isn't as important as
being popular?".
My company develop websites with Linux (of FreeBSD), Apache (+
Tomcat), MySQL & Java. However, the open source CMS and blog tools
available just aren't as good as Wordpress & Joomla. Several times
we have found ourselves asking "should we add PHP to our repertoire?"
but each time deciding that it's better to stick with the language we
know already.
It seems ironic that the open-source community follow LAMP but yet the
Apache Jakarta group have standardized on Java.
There's no question to this post really. Am just feeling a bit
insecure (though I suspect I would feel more insecure if I only knew
PHP and not Java) and looking for some advice.
Heather
Java has opened up so many more jobs and opportunities for me. We
wouldn't dream of using anything else for enterprise middleware.
However, on the website development front, you look at websites like
flickr and the extensive contributions behind the Joomla, Drupal &
Wordpress projects and think "maybe being best isn't as important as
being popular?".
My company develop websites with Linux (of FreeBSD), Apache (+
Tomcat), MySQL & Java. However, the open source CMS and blog tools
available just aren't as good as Wordpress & Joomla. Several times
we have found ourselves asking "should we add PHP to our repertoire?"
but each time deciding that it's better to stick with the language we
know already.
It seems ironic that the open-source community follow LAMP but yet the
Apache Jakarta group have standardized on Java.
There's no question to this post really. Am just feeling a bit
insecure (though I suspect I would feel more insecure if I only knew
PHP and not Java) and looking for some advice.
Heather