An interesting comparison of Moodle and Sakai ..
An interesting comparison of Moodle and Sakai at
http://www.zacker.org/sakai-project-vs-moodle
I would think the number of deployments really based on the needs and cost that customer can (or wants to) afford, but it should not imply one product is better than the others in general. Also, For example, MS Windows and Linux/OS X. Also, people should compare PHP with JSP/J2EE, not LAMP to Java .. I thin
(previously posted on my another blog, but found it more suitable here ..)
posted by Max J. Tsai @ 6:12 PM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Zack said...
Yes. The low cost of the LAMP stack drives TCO of Moodle much lower than Sakai (hence the much wider adoption).
By "Java" I really meant the "JSP/J2EE" stack.
7:23 PM
Max J. Tsai said...
Being lucky to be able to work on both PHP and JSP/J2EE; for me, it is just LAMP or LAMJ (or, O(S X)AMJ - Darwin ^_^..). No really big deal! I do really enjoy how much Tomcat takes care of the work for me. I have not found it is harder to develop or maintain LAMJ or LAMP ..
9:05 PM
Zack said...
Yeah, the real difference btwn. JSF/J2EE and LAMP is the level of uptake you get from 'tinkerers'. Since people are much more likely to tinker with software they can easily get running on their home machines it is much easier for Moodle to harvest contributions from it's community. This is what is driving Moodle's development and adoption and is what is hurting Sakai.
1:29 AM
Max J. Tsai said...
Speaking of Home machines, for a Windows user, is it easier to get Tomcat install and running or to get Apache and PHP set up? Is it easier to get a 'war' file deployed or to unzip a zip file and set up Apache for it? JRE/JDK is on most computer now a day!
For developers, you can just use JSP to write a nice web application with the wealth'ness of tag libraries like how much I enjoy using PHP/PEAR libraries. It is just the matter of comfortable level for the programmers to the languages. Unless we are talking about design pattern - that could make some difference!
7:08 AM
FYI:
Java and PHP
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