PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008

Stony Stevenson writes "It used to be that popular PHP applications would run more poorly on Windows Server than on a Linux or Unix servers, for which PHP had been optimized. Specialist in the PHP language Zend Technologies now says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run 'with performance and stability' on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. Previously, PHP 'didn't run as well as it should on Windows,' said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations."

Re: PHP Optimised for Windows Server 2008

[CheekyBastard]

"with performance and stability"

Excellent. This way, when it turns out to be false, they can always say: "We didn't mention 'good' performance.

Re:FastCGI != Apache Module

[mini me]

Very true. I once inherited a Ruby on Rails project that had code similar to this:

@variable = eval("@#{params[:variable]}")

I think I'd rather see SQL injection vulnerabilities.

Re:Why not Apache?

[RipSUp]

They don't want your LAMP to become a WAMP, they want it to become a WIMP (Windows/IIS/MSSQL/PHP)

Re:Why not Apache?

[jjrockman]

Don't you mean Windows IIS MySQL PHP/Perl? Or, WIMP for short.

Re:Misleading

[muszek]

Food? Are car analogies not good enough for you?

Re:Other incapatiblities

[FishWithAHammer]

It really makes me wonder, why on earth developers don't all switch to the mac? Price is definitely not an excuse anymore, and compatibility issues are tales from ages ago.

Because the Mac is an irksome piece of shit with a bad UI and uninteresting hardware.

Re:Other incapatiblities

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't see why Macs are more often used. They were the first machines with a web server (MacHTTP), and because OS X is proven as 100% secure, there are no worries about an Xserve box getting rooted.

Its by far the best platform out there, a bug free OS for a buggy world.

Re:Optimise your spell check

[FyRE666]

President Bush? Is that you?

Optimized double misery

[200_success]

PHP and Windows? They each suck enough on their own.

Re:Misleading

[discogravy]

lots of people eat in their cars, but who prepares food in their cars?

I suppose you could make a very complex analogy about tailgate parties or something, but it really seems like too much trouble.