Is Sun going to buy PHP too?(PHP Quebec 2008)

by Harun Yayli on Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 6:57 pm under PHP

It was good 2 days at PHP Quebec Conf here in Montreal.

A lot of great sessions!!!!
My highlights:
- Great session by Eli White - High Performance PHP & MySQL.
- Really nice 2 sessions by Marc Wandschneider (The I18N and memcached sessions)
Some sessions I’ve attended were really really bad. I’m not going to name names :P
But overall, I guess it was worth taking 2 days from work and going to the php conf.

Here is the part about Sun and PHP:

At the end of the conferance, there was a small QA session with the conferance speakers. At the begining everyone was shy to ask questions. So some asked phunny questions like, “What’s the next big thing you’d be developing in PHP 6? Is it PDO2?” things like that. Everybody started laughing and I’ve (tried) to make a joking reference to “Sun buying MySQL” and asked:

Is Sun going to buy PHP too?

All of a sudden all the speakers, which were lauging to the previous joke, stopped lauging. All the heads turned to me, and someone from speakers asked:

How?

And actually they took the question seriously, ignoring the fact that I was half lauging when I was asking the question. All of a sudden their faces were stunned. I guess it was the one of the Core developers of PHP said, “They can buy me”. It was funny and this released the tension in the room a bit.

Hey guys, hold it! It was just a joke. Why were they that sensitive to the subject? I don’t know?
What do you think?

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6 Responses to “Is Sun going to buy PHP too?(PHP Quebec 2008)”

  1. Johannes SChlüter Says:

    The point is: They did ;-)
    While buying MySQL they bought a member of the PHP Group, the 5.3 releasse manager and a few other contributors to PHP. But, at least from my side, I don’t see this having impact on PHP, maybe I can convince them to spend some resources on PHP but I think that would be good for PHP :-)

    March 15th, 2008 at 5:52 am
  2. David Coallier Says:

    Nah they cannot buy php :) It’s like saying, is Yahoo buying PHP ? :) The sure can lead the development towards their own road by having a lot of internal developers, however, I think this would actually be good for both sides :)

    We’d get some development done, they’d get what they want. Anyone “can” buy PHP :) Just get some guys working on the core.

    March 15th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
  3. Harun Yayli Says:

    The question was not if Sun could buy PHP. I was trying the understand the odd reaction of the developers to the question “Is Sun buying PHP too?”

    March 16th, 2008 at 11:34 am
  4. RST Says:

    What if SUN bought Zend. Wouldn’t that be like buying PHP? I’m actually waiting for that to happen.

    March 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
  5. Johannes Says:

    RST, no, would just have little impact on PHP development, most likely Zend would spent some resources on Unix instead of improving performance on Windows, oh and well, ZendStudio would use NetBeans instead of Eclipse, but other than that: The PHP Development is controlled by individuals so you’d have to buy quite many guys to get an big impact.

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am
  6. neor Says:

    It should be nice if Sun do that.
    PHP will maybe more clever than now.

    October 8th, 2008 at 11:32 am

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