An old article appeared in my phpdeveloper.org inbox today, about Microsoft and Zend uniting to improve Windows running PHP support. A chap called Tony Bibbs raised a question back then which I think could still be unanswerable, seeing as Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! still hasn’t been accepted.
Will it affect PHP in open-source environments? Will LAMP no longer be the norm? Will WIMP (Windows IIS MySQL PHP) become the new standard? I used to use WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) as a development environment until I became suitably knowledgable about Linux to run a development server, after which I have never looked back. There’s just something about a LAMP environment which makes me warm and cosy. Hell, I use Vista both at work and at home as a development machine, but the test environment is always LAMP (I use CVS to commit, then update the server with the latest CVS trunk, as explained before).
If, and I’m not saying it will, Microsoft buying Yahoo! will affect PHP’s future, I hope that LAMP will still be the standard. I’m fine just the way I am now, thankyou!
