Yahoo! is doing PHP and MySQL
Someone pointed me to this talk from 4 years ago, describing how Yahoo! made the case for PHP and MySQL. There’s also a follow-up available on Michael’s page.
I’m kinda baffled by this. PHP and MySQL haven’t really seen, to my knowledge, wide adoption by high-profile web properties like Yahoo!, although they’re definitely used in many businesses. “Serious” businesses use Oracle and Java and Websphere and all those other app layers. So watching Yahoo! go LAMP (well actually FreeBSD in their case) is quite fascinating. Michael also has a blog.
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