Venture Chronicles: PHP investment by SAP Ventures

Tim Bray has an interesting post on PHP, which actually gets interesting in the updates (which he appends to from email because he doesn’t have comments, pity). When SAP did the Zend investment a lot of time was spent on the technical due diligence. The slap on PHP has always been that it’s a scripting language trying to be a “grown up� development language… you often hear this from older developers or, for lack of a better term, technology snobs.

"In the end, the strength of PHP for the investment decision came down to the fact that there were so many developers using it on so many websites. Community, it�s increasingly coming down to the community and not the technology. "