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# And all I got for it was a clinically brain dead smack fiend
I…I think I just sold my soul to the devil. I mean, I feel reasonably intact and automatic doors still open for me; yet, there is an oozy feel to me skin, like I just took a swim in a stinking pit of unremitting evil.
Perhaps it was the reply I just sent to my client. She is the primary contact at the company that I – de facto – work for and will work for de jure come March. She is going to cease being my primary contact by then as she is moving onto a new project.
She asked me – after some of the potential development shops got in her ear – whether or not the new project should use mySQL/PHP instead of ASP.NET and MSSQL Server.
After pointing out that – unless I was being paid to do so – I would never use ASP.NET myself, I told her to stick with Microsoft.
They have an existing investment in Microsoft with ASP.NET and SQL Server, so they are not going to save money by adopting LAMP. Microsoft bullshit on TCO aside, they would end up having to spend more money to hire on new developers and administrators or retrain their existing team. They have no intention of releasing any source code, it is for an internal project whose entire external presence would be at most web service calls.
It makes no sense – to my mind – that they should adopt PHP/mySQL. It comes down to the development shops they are looking at trying to convince them that PHP is a better option in order to get the contract – there is no advantage to my company, only to the developers. Which is fair enough in itself; I would never begrudge someone trying to turn a dollar. I just don’t advice my company to agree to it because after the development shop gets paid and goes away, someone has to maintain the code and it might end up being me and that would suck. PHP? Ewww!
All the same, I still feel a little wrong. Maybe it is because as much as I dislike PHP, ASP.NET is the suckiest suck that ever did suck.
