(2005-03-02) Ibm Backs Php

IBM is going to sell services supporting PHP. "We're in a better position to look at a language that fits people's background and what they want to accomplish, rather than saying everything has to be written in one particular language (Java) that scales from easy-to-use to high-performance systems," Smith said... One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM's push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry's inability to make Java very easy to use.