Ringside Social Application Server: Interesting but not Java

In a not-so-recent post Matt Asay featured Social Application Server - currently the only product of a startup called Ringside Networks formed by a number of former employees of Bluestone Software and JBoss.

That sounded interesting as I expected to see a Java-based implementation. In fact I was so sure of it that I read through almost entire Ringside Networks website (there's not really much of it by the way). Imagine my level of frustration surprise when I found, in the Requirements section, that the product is PHP-based!

While it's easy to dismiss Ringside's technology choice as not appropriate for the enterprise, it might be an indication of a trend in Enterprise 2.0 arena. It could be that Web 2.0 will enter the enterprise with its technological retinue such as PHP and its brethren.

If you are an enterprise Java developer, put PHP on your watch list.