PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party
The enterprise has long favored Java and .Net, but PHP and other dynamic programming languages have left their infancies and are rapidly closing the gap on their more stodgy competitors.
That's the message I got from Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState, the "dynamic languages company," in a conversation this past week. I wanted to find out how the Vancouver-based "old school" open-source company is faring in building business solutions and developer tools around Perl, Python and Tcl.
Quite well, as it turns out (and as described by Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond). But the story is much bigger than ActiveState.
