Government-Organized PHP Seminar in France
June 21st, 2006 | by admin | suraski.netYesterday in Paris, I spoke in a one day seminar about PHP, that was organized by DGME, a French governmental agency. It was held in a conference room in one of the Minefi (Ministry of Finance) buildings, no less. Most of the attendees were coming from various governmental agencies and ministries, to learn more about PHP success stories and best practices. Presenters came from Oracle, alapage.com, DGME, Zend and others.
The seminar was the first seminar of its kind in France, and to the best of my knowledge - it was the first one of its kind around the world as well. Personally, I found it quite amazing - although I guess we’ll have to start getting used to PHP being regularly adopted by an ever-growing number of entities, for which it used to be completely off-limits until not too long ago. At long last, the perception about PHP is finally showing some true signs of changing, and finally synchronizing with reality; People and organizations perceiving PHP for what it is - the best Web development platform out there.
I believe this is just the beginning - and we’ll see more events like this in France and elsewhere, and more and more people attending them.
