We moved to PHP from Perl in the late 90s because of mod_php. It was just easier, faster & cheaper. We had a vast perl codebase we rewrote to PHP. Competitors h

We moved to PHP from Perl in the late 90s because of mod_php. It was just easier, faster & cheaper. We had a vast perl codebase we rewrote to PHP. Competitors here started to use Zope (Python) begin 2000s so we started to look around again and went over to Java which moved our company from little small/medium business clients, straight to enterprises (fortune 1000). The 'easier, faster & cheaper' went straight out of the window, but we did beat the Zope competitors in mostly all sales pitches.