Decisions, decisions...
Decisions, decisions...
- Subject: Decisions, decisions...
- From: Logiciels Malus Softwares <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:05:43 -0500
Hi!
I'm new to this list, and I have been looking for a "good excuse" to
do WO development for a while... Now I have this project that looks
like a good candidate, but I have been asked to compare WO with
PHP... I know, I know, not the same beast, and though both are
fruits, one is an apple and the other one is an orange. However, I do
have to compare... And therein lies my problem: I can not, for the
love of me, come to a decision? (Obviously I am biased since I ask
here, though... : ) )
What we are looking at here is a website with forums, file exchange,
mass-mailing functionality, and a very, very basic text-editor.
That's for the first couple of phases. Then.. .Who knows. But it's
basically an enhanced online community. We are probably going to have
about 2000 users.
Now, I know PHP can probably do all that, and the community is _huge_
with a lot of libraries and all that. I'm a little concerned about
some of PHP's shortcomings (those I have found discussed on the web)
like lower security, not being too friendly with teams of developers;
though I will only be the only programmer for now, I can see this
becoming a 2-3 programmers project in the future. And I really like
to be able to extract the logic from the web pages. (I know I can do
that with Smarty in PHP) On a totally personnal note, I'm more
confident with Obj-C or Java than C/C++ at this point (my C++ is
really rusty) and I understand if I ever need to develop "plug-ins"
or "extras" in PHP, it's C/C++...
On the other hand, WO feels like it's just a bit too big for this
project; I know the learning curve will be steeper, but I am counting
on long term gains in maintenance... The other thing against WO is
that, right now, it would mean buying it - my thoughts were to buy a
Mac Mini, install Mac OS X server on there, and host it at
macminicolo or something... But, it would mean $$$ in the short term.
The other concern was that it would be easier to find PHP coders if/
when we need help, than WO coders... Though since WO is Java, I guess
it's not such a good argument after all...
Sooooo, I'm all mixed up! I _want_ the answer to be WO ; ) but I just
can't in good faith find a valid, solid argument (or even better:
"set of arguments") to tip the scale in WO's favor... Since for this
kind of project, it feels like PHP might be very capable, cheaper and
allow us to grow the team over time...
Anybody has any thoughts on this?
Thanks!
Jean
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