Robert Peake is back with a new response to another article - the posting on Norbert Mocsnick's weblog earlier concerning Enterprise PHP development.

Thanks to fellow Serendipity user Norbert Mocsnick for pulling this roster of PHP users from Zend. [...] This helps answer the question, "Who are the enterprise?" but raises another: "Where have they been?"

Upon discovering I was, "an open source guy" a friend of a friend with a wink and a nudge disclosed to me that his company uses MySQL as the mainstay of their information gathering operations. Huge operations. Yet he'd throttle me if I disclosed the company name (a household word in IT).

Why the shame?

He continues with his post, offering up suggestions for why companies/individuals see PHP programmers as "stealing" jobs from ASP/JSP programmers, as well as why MySQL is undermining the Oracle world. But, until PHP has pulled the sword from the stone (as he puts it), we still have more ground to cover...