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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Open Source Code. While it shouldn’t be the ultimate deciding factor for selecting a programming language, it’s worth keeping in mind that certain languages have vast repositories of open source code available online. According to a report done by Github, the three most popular open source languages among the website’s 5.8

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Is the technology open sourced? Java, PHP, Python, Ruby? The cost of adding too much “scalability” up front is a more complex product, harder to test and maintain. MVC vs. REST?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them?

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. We tried to learn how to create a schema, or really anything at all, and mostly failed.