Re: web development (seeking opinion)

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Mohammad Shuja wrote:

> as there are software companies. I want to know, which is by far the
> most popular and scalable web-database combination these days, specially
> with the oracle database as the backend, in your OPINION. I don't wanna
> start with something that won't last in the future.

I'm not a big fan of Java for web development efforts because development is somewhat slow, and performance can be disappointing.

In my opinion, Apache/mod_php/php is a *VERY* powerful combination which works very well with Oracle. There are many production internet sites fed off of this combination. Also, Apache/mod_perl/DBI is very powerful.

http://www.apache.org/
http://www.php.net/
http://perl.apache.org/
http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html

Some other very powerful technologies are:

http://www.masonhq.com/
http://perl.apache.org/embperl/
http://photo.net/doc/
http://www.firstworks.com/site/pages/html/frames.html