On the Enterprise PHP Magazine (part of PHP Magazine) site today, there's a look at why Groupe Girard chose to go with PHP over J2EE to create their ERP.

Le Groupe Gerard is an european leader in furniture transportation. By choosing PHP, groupe Girard divided by ten the development time of its ERP software which using more than 400 screen. The maintenance is also much more easy. Explained Valentin Moyano, IT Director of the groupe.

They list out some of the resons why those went with PHP:

• PHP, a very permissive language
• The development time divided by ten