If they were at all interested in ramping up to Rails or node or <cool-hip-etc/> then you'd have some room to discuss the benefits of one over the other. But th

If they were at all interested in ramping up to Rails or node or <cool-hip-etc/> then you'd have some room to discuss the benefits of one over the other. But they're not, and it looks like you don't. It takes a lot of work to move from one framework to another and if there's no enthusiasm for the move then there's very little chance the move will succeed. There's plenty of better frameworks than php, sure, but there's also lots of cases trying to force the issue and ending up with a painful rewrite down the road. http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...