I’m very proud to have been involved as an editor and help with the translation and update of the AFUP’s PHP en Enterprise livre blanc into the PHP for Enterprise/Business Whitepaper: as far as I know this is the first full English language translation and update of the work done by the Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP (French PHP Users Group). Also there is a lot of new content in the Whitepaper that with regards to how PHP is now utilised in Enterprise. Figures have been updated and techniques available in later versions of PHP have been referenced.
We’ve had an interesting time translating and updating the content – especially as I don’t know French let alone their idioms. Many thanks to Stéphane Lambert for his boundless energy and devotion to getting us this far!
Thanks also to PEAR President and fellow IPUG member David Coallier who also helped with the translation work and not forgetting Derick Rethans and Peter Keung who also assisted in fine-tuning our work into something a bit more fluent and graceful 
I would be remiss to not mention Blacknight who have sponsored the IPUG from the start – without them there truly would not be a php.ie!
If I’ve left anybody out – please remind me!
All in all, as Chairman of the Irish PHP Users Group, I can say this is an exciting moment for us to have achieved – we’ve given something tangible back to the PHP Community as a whole and to top things off we’ve published the Whitepaper under the Open Licence Content – you may
freely use it if you clearly acknowledge the Irish PHP Users Group and if you retain the Open Content Licence. This means you can localise the Whitepaper to your own language and national figures if you so desire.
I’m so glad to see this kind of stuff coming through. We’ve been through 4 version of the white paper and a new one shoud come in 2 months. Having talked to Lukas Smith, using emphpower to spread this white paper sounded like a good idea. I hope we’ll connect the dots sometimes in the future. Anyway I’m glad the shoulders are getting wider around this stuff ! And by the way, I think did use the orginal version to make a english one back in the days…
Yes, I also think emphpower would be a good way to follow through with spreading the White Paper (whatever language it’s distributed in
)
We did find an earlier English translation of the Livre Blanc that had been written by some members of the PHP Quebec Group but it was only half translated and it made more sense, and less work, to fully translate the Livre Blanc than to finish the Quebec translation and then update it.
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IIRC PHP Quebec, and Damien Seguy published something similar a few years ago.
This is a great resource.
I noted the section on Oracle said “will include”, which long ago became a “has included”. This section could also note our contributions to PHP in particular for the OCI8 extension. (And it could reference the free book we have: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/pdf/underground-php-oracle-manual.pdf)
The paper’s impact will be improved if more recent stats are available.
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@Paul: Yes they did – but we found it (or at the very least the version we read) to be only half translated to English; we naturally wanted to provide a more complete translation however.
@chris : thanks for the pointer, we’re in the process of updating the original french version
And Oracle will have its “has included”…
I would like to contribute with the Spanish version of the document.
excellent contribution of the white paper, hopefully find a much improved translation