The End

Well today is the day of a few endings: End of the month and sort of End of the Summer Season.

There is always a feverish pace to the last day of the month to try and get all the last minute sales deals closed to show respectable numbers for the month. This is especially difficult today with virtually half of our customers on vacation and the others on “vacation mode.”

With the end of the summer “silly” season, I look for things to wake up next week as we go into the traditional high season and back to more productive work schedules. Surprisingly August was a bit more active than expected with a feeling that us and php might be making a bigger splash in the UK. Several very large enterprises and financial institutions have shown an interest in talking with us and we hope to do see some progress there. Some of the rather large PR we have been doing has got to pay off sometime.

One of the larger institutions that approached us did evidence the ongoing tug of war that goes in behind the scenes when trying to bring in php and open source apps in general. Some of the MS guys allege that php is inherently unsafe according to a number of articles and white papers they have read. My Google search for these articles pulls up nothing but some old php holes from a few years ago and the infamous summer of coding and lots of great articles on how to write secure php code. Not to mention the big php and Facebook brouhaha a couple of weeks ago which turned out to be nothing. We’re waiting for these guys to show us some of these articles but doubt if it is anything earth shattering. Back to the battlelines to prove that php is a viable, safe and secure option for enterprise applications.

Here’s to cooler and busy days ahead.