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copied!<p>I would be reluctant to say that servers are a one time cost of a few grand since some cost hundreds of thousands and I would venture to say millions. A number of sources will suggest that the biggest cost to the IT industry is hardware, not manpower. But for a comparison of the languages we need to compare them, not hardware.</p> <p>The idea behind languages like Ruby, Python, PHP, and Groovy is essentially Rapid Application Development (RAD). The frameworks, Ruby on Rails, Django, CakePHP, and Grails are there to better facilitate RAD. The languages are easy to use and enable developers to setup and develop with little cost and the timeline involved is reduced in comparison to other languages or setups.</p> <p>Is it right or wrong? It's all personal opinion but in the end the needs of the project will define which tool set is best suited. If your application has low traffic and you want to have it developed and live in a few months then it would be ideal to use one of the previously mentioned languages and/or framework.</p> <p>But what about C++, .Net, and J2EE? Theres a place for everything. These tend to have higher up front costs associated with the time and energy to architect the project, setup the development environment, and do the actual development. But the languages and frameworks built from them are better suited for scalability to accommodate heavy traffic or computations.</p> <p>Look at Facebook as an example. The original site was prototyped and deployed as a PHP application and the user base was relatively small. As the site grew into the monster we know it as today they scaled their application by implementing J2EE on the back end while using the existing PHP scripting for the front end.</p> <p>As someone with experience in J2EE development and Python/PHP there is a very apparent set of advantages and disadvantages. I can build a blog with PHP in a few days ready for public access but the same project in J2EE may take much longer.</p> <p>Forgive my terminology but Enterprise languages (J2EE, .Net) require a significant amount of configuration and deployment efforts. Ruby, PHP, and Python do not, you simply open Notepad, write your code and save it with the correct extension and you're ready to upload.</p> <p>Does that help?</p>

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