Some interesting comparison between PHP, Rails and Java

During the International PHP Conference 2006, Tim Bray, who - among many other things - co-edited the XML 1.0 and XML namespace definitions, gave a keynote about "How to combine PHP technology with Java based on Enterprise Systems". During his keynote, he presented some very interesting comparison between the popular development "frameworks" PHP, Ruby on Rails (RoR, Rails) and Java

• Scaling : Load balancing, Shared-nothing, CPU , DBMS, File I/O, Observability
• Development Speed : Compilation step, Deployment step, Code Size, Configuration process
• Development Tools : IDE, Templating, How many tools, O/R Mapping, Performance, Documentation
• Maintainability : MVC, OO, Readability, Language count, Code size

It seems Java can't get a upper hand from the eyes of Sun people.

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