Yahoo moving to PHP

[Peter Motyka]

I saw this on slashdot.org and was so amazed. If this follows through, it could mean great things for PHP. Am I wrong, or this the largest site to every consider using PHP?

http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm

Peter

[Victor Cardona]

According to the slides that are linked off of the /. article Yahoo! is the most trafficed site on the Internet. They are also moving the site over a little bit at a time.

Victor

[Michael Kennedy]

Yeah, by traffic I'd say Yahoo would have to be the biggest, but the real victory for PHP will come when eBay starts using PHP.  If they go over to mySQL (I doubt they're using it now) I would call that one of the biggest victories for the Open Source community.

Actually, the only bigger victory possible would come if msn.com, microsoft.com, etc. went to PHP/mySQL.  :)

BTW- Did anyone else see the 60 Minutes II thing on eBay?  They outgross Sears, Maceys, and 2 other big companies (I forgot who they were) - combined!  Yeow.

[Peter Motyka]

I am not sure how well PHP performs on high traffic transaction servers.  Is anyone aware of what language/DBMS eBay is using currently?  Thier dynamic pages are generated with a URL containing a DLL file, so I imagine it is a NT/IIS based system.  This is definitly a huge step for PHP, but true... PHP may need to mature further before being used in high load transaction webapps.

Peter