RE: Gartner Group: The Cost Of Ecommerce

["Gary E. Bickford" <garyb@fxt.com>]

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Having dinked around with minivend for a while, it seems like a mishmash
grown like topsy and pushed past its conceptual limits.

PHP (http://www.php.net) has much better, easier to use interfaces for both
front end and back end.  I wasted more time trying to make minivend work
than it would have taken me to build an entire system with PHP.

There's getting to be a fairly large library of modules for PHP to save
even more work, such as the PHPBase session manager.  PHP has interfaces to
over a dozen different databases (plus ODBC of course), plus LDAP and a
bunch of other tools.  All http server environment variables are available
automatically, as are GET, POST, and COOKIE vars and SSL vars.  It's also
fast, especially when linked into Apache - most PHP pages are done
executing before a cgi process is even launched.  (ModPerl has this
advantage as well, however because Perl is so large, it makes your memory
footprint per process huge!) Some group that evaluates server-side
scripting systems rated Cold Fusion the best commercial package, and PHP
the best non-commercial package.  (I'd rate PHP above Cold Fusion except
there's no wywsiwyg composer tool such as CF Studio - I use BBEdit or Vim
myself)

Sorry folks - I'm outa here, if I can remember how to unsub.
GEB
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