Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 17th November 2007 12:32

On 16 Nov 2007, at 10:55, Mark Pawelek wrote:

>
> Probably the platform you're currently using. There is no 'best
> platform'
> because the platform will depend upon the clients business needs
> (which
> depends upon the size, scale of the application being developed,
> etc.) and
> developer's skillset. There are some deficiencies with php which
> make it a
> difficult choice for huge websites; but those problems are not
> specific to
> Web 2.0 [I won't bother reading the forum for the next day as the
> PHPers
> here (the majority here) will go mad at what I just wrote].
>

Yes, the best platform is the one you know best.
From the business point of view, in London at least, PHP and Java are
widely used and Ruby is growing strong.
PHP can be used for huge website. I'm currently involved in couple of
sites that have 10k unique visitors a day and it's working well. Also,
in couple of weeks, a big sites (can't tell the name yet) is going to
re-launch using PHP and the traffic is expected to be huge (it is a
very popular high street magazine).

Paul