Well, with quotes like "it is simply not a language designed for the sorts of workloads that Java and .NET are" I'm not sure of the author's technical level.<p>Also, his comparison of Zend's "folks" (which ones? Founders? Execs? Sales people?) to "gestapo officer looking for a spy: "What? Who said that? Who said it was slow? Tell us their name!"" isn't too apt - they'd probably like to know who complained about PHP performance, so they can offer them their products/services, rather than silence them somehow.