From:	Ligesh	Date:	Wed Feb 20 15:55:47 2008
Subject:	Re: Lang.Net Symposium 2008

 Hi,

 A PHP that targets Silverlight alone would be of great interest to Zend I would think :-).  With the looming MS acquisition of yahoo, and considering that yahoo's web interface is mostly PHP, I would think MS would also be interested. MS would surely move the underlying servers to Windows (anything else would be a marketing disaster), but might want to retain the web-interface system intact, which would be consistent with their marketing pitch of open-source middle-ware stack running on top of Windows platform.
 
 I can 'help' by starting to port all our applications to PHP-silverlight. The applications are relatavily large, but contain only around 1000-2000 lines of HTML, so porting wouldn't be that difficult. Windows/.NET/Silverlight are completely alien technology to me, so contributing code directly would be beyond my capabilities.

 Anyway, we will keep this list busy. I am sure a working PHP-silverlight would be extremely attractive to Linux/Unix web developers, considering that moonlight will be out soon, and even otherwise, even though the servers are all linux, the end-users mostly use windows. Actually, with PHP-Silverlight, Unix devs would be able to do better windows programming than Windows developers, which is again something that I am really looking forward to.

 Thanks.

  
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:04:59AM +0100, Tomas Petricek wrote:
> Hi,
> This is an interesting discussion and I'm glad to read various views on this
> topic from the community. The decision whether to use Phalanger or start a
> new implementation from scratch clearly depends on the people who want to be
> involved in the project and I don't want to "push" you in any direction,
> though I would be of course very glad if PHP community wanted to be involved
> in Phalanger! So, let me react to some comments and add some information
> about future plans of the folks involved in the project currently: