Re: Linux losing out?

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Biju - you just got drafted to relate your experiences at this Saturday's
ILUG-Bangalore meet. Be prepared to show some stuff. This is a topic that
is going to be of major interest. I am pushing an announcement out into
the BLR list right now.

Bangalore members, if anyone has done web programming using 
PHP/Perl/Zope/etc., please get in touch with me or Jessie. We want to see
stuff and show it to others.

Atul

p.s. Apologies for the long quote below - I am echoing this to
ILUG-Bangalore.

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Biju Chacko wrote:

> 
> --- Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > applications for the web, he just cannot find anyone (in Delhi) to
> > program in PHP/Zope/Perl/etc., 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Any thoughts on what we (LI, PCQ, Chip, etc.) can do about this?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> PCQ and CHIP can do more to build awareness about PHP etc. But I think
> it's important to do this at two levels:
> 
> a) At the developer level. Most programmers I know have never heard of
> PHP and Zope. Perl may have been heard of, but thats it.
> 
> b) At the suit level. I was just assigned to an e-commerce project. I
> tried to suggest PHP but failed. The attitude is:
> 
> * If I haven't heard of it, it can't be any good.
> 
> * Anyway 75% of the internet is running on IIS/NT (god knows where he
> got that), so why bother with these obscure, fringe tools.
> 
> There is also the question of training. There is no where to learn
> these tools other than books and your own system. And for a working
> programmer, that makes it very difficult. Believe me, I'm speaking from
> experience. :-( I have a lot of crisp books at home and a system thats
> *very* dusty. I think that this is where the LUGs can help...
> 
> Biju

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