Open Source & PHP in the Middle East

Thursday, September 1. 2005

Currently I'm writing an article on the state of Open Source and PHP in the middle east. As you would have probably guessed googling didn't give much useful information. I would like to know about your experiences using them. What are the difficulties that are stopping OpenSource from being mainstream? Why didn't OpenSource get a chance in our educational system?

Any information would be valuable, elaborate, innovate and send me whatever you have

Posted by Ammar Ibrahim in Open Source & Free software at 20:08 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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somebody "foq foq" in Jordan Planet told me once that it is hard to compete with Microsoft and their prices.

#1 jameed (Homepage) on 2005-09-01 22:06 (Reply)

maybe i could write you somthing later, since i have a long experience with PHP... also since i faced lots of difficulties to convince pepole with php in jordan ...

#2 Ibrahim (Homepage) on 2005-09-02 04:01 (Reply)

Nothing stop OpenSource from being Main stream. For instance, LAMP Boxes are getting high attention. LAMP Boxes stand for Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP/ Perl ...

However, many opensource products dont have support, thus they cannt survive...

Other point, J2EE power is controlling... All the companies in SF Bay use it since it is machine independent...

salam

#3 adi on 2005-09-02 04:22 (Reply)

PHP is also machine independent, I don't see this as an issue.

#3.1 Ammar Ibrahim (Homepage) on 2005-09-02 09:17 (Reply)

i want to open blog site..i think this site can help me for open any blog site.

#3.2 fahad bin zafar (Homepage) on 2007-01-21 16:27 (Reply)

hey Ammar, I've stumbled onto your blog today (had a few laughs). My partners and I have founded an Open Source company in Egypt and we have been around for almost two and half years. Contact me if you need information, other than that let me know what you do as I couldn't figure it out.

#4 Rady Fahmy (Homepage) on 2006-04-27 20:45 (Reply)

hey ammar....
i heard about kteeer eno u have a great knowledge about PHP and mysql DB.
umm.. may i ask a question !!!!.
i have problems in mysql ...when i built database which contaians arabic data,when i show the data in the browser this data shown like ????. after that i changed the collation to utf8_general_ci,
is works but i can see it on the browes but in the table its encoded and its take along length in the tables.
sooo can u tell me another way to set tables in a right way???
w
anywayz thnx

#5 kayed Qunibi on 2006-11-26 19:49 (Reply)

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