Dynamically Typed has a new entry concerning the past post about Friendster going PHP, and how the J2EE guy still doesn't get it.

Following on from Friendster's switch to PHP it's interesting to see the flame war that's played out here (Jeff does a neat round up of links here). After various comments to the effect of "well clearly Friendster don't know Java" think this put an end to that line;

We had not one but TWO guys here who had written bestselling JSP books. Not that this necessarily means they're great Java devs, but I actually think our guys were as good as any team.

Without wishing to add more fuel to fire, it seems that there are some J2EE developers out there who just don't "get" PHP. Which is interesting in itself as what's so hard to grasp about PHP? At some fundamental level there seems to be a difference in mind set between the J2EE guy and the PHP guy that means (at least in one direction) one can't grasp that the other approach also works (and may actually work better).

Harry then continues on, talking about PHP as a CGI versus PHP as an Apache module and continues with his main point - "Scalability != Performance". Read on for more info on this one...