Japanese Web and PHP/symfony
2008-12-08 @ Sensio Labs
Akky Akimoto(秋元裕樹)
Cybozu Labs/Asiajin/Narabe.com, Tokyo, Japan
Agenda
- Self introduction
 
- Cybozu Who?
 
- Japanese Web Industory
 
- PHP/symfony in Japan
 
 
Self introduction
three jobs
Why in Paris?
- Official Blogger of Le Web '08
 
 
- Independent packaged software vendor (800 people in whole group)
 
- No.1 Groupware vendor in Japan (leading #2 IBM and #3 Microsoft)
 
- Enterprise web collaboration package - scheduler, bulletin board, messaging, to do, project management, workflow, web database, etc.
 
- The main product is built on PHP/MySQL
 
 
Groupware Market Share/Japan
- Cybozu (25.6%)
 
- IBM/Lotus (24.7%)
 
- Microsoft Exchange (13.1%)
 
stats by Nork-Research
 
Cybozu Labs?
- Research subsidiary of Cybozu. 3 years old
 
- "Engineers only" company (12 engineers)
 
- To make innovation for the next generation product
 
- open sources: Mosh(Scheme interpreter), Q4M(MySQL queue engine), etc.
 
- experimental services: Mylingual, Pathtraq, iVoca, Outputz, etc.
 
 
Cybozu and Akky
 
- Group blog on Japanese Web/IT industory news
 
- 2400 feed subscribers, 75% of which from outside of Japan
 
- 1st anniversary
 
 
Comparison Charts Community Narabe.com
- "Wikipedia for Comparison Chart"
 
- Japanese version is so so. No one on English version.
 
- symfony/PHP5.2/Apache/MySQL/Amazon EC2&S3
 
 
Japanese Web Industory
Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!
- Yahoo! Japan is dominating (the world #10 - Alexa)
 
- Auction (eBay out), Search, Web Mail, News, Shopping, Blog, Q and A, etc.
 
- Google is far behind (half in search users, far smaller ads sale, #34 - Alexa)
 
- other Japanese companies
 
 
Other big players
- Rakuten (Online shopping mall)
 
- DeNA (cellphone SNS)
 
- Mixi (SNS)
 
- Kakaku.com (price comparison)
 
- Amazon Japan (online books/shopping)
 
- Gurunabi (groumet guide)
 
- Cyber Agent (blog, portal)
 
 
PHP and other scripting languages(1)
- PHP - largest userbase, many novices
 
- Perl - most active around the world
 
- Ruby - also popular (Ruby is from Japan originally)
 
- Python - Zope has some users but not so strong
 
- Java, .NET - almost enterprize only
 
 
PHP and other scripting languages(2)
major web services and their main language
- PHP - Yahoo, Rakuten, Niconico Douga, Kakaku.com, Gree, Gurunabi
 
- Perl - Mixi, livedoor, 2channel, Hatena
 
- Ruby - Cookpad(, Rakuten)
 
- Python - ... Google?
 
cf. Alexa top sites in Japan
 
PHP in Japan
- mbstring - multibytes handling MUST
 
- migrating PHP4 to PHP5
 
- a lot of translation works done. not many reads English documentations
 
 
PHP frameworks
- Mojavi/Agavi - not active now
 
- Maple (Japanese) - not active now
 
- Ethna (Japanese, Gree SNS - #3 Social Network. 887 mil. euro profit)
 
- Piece Framework (Japanese)
 
- CodeIgnitor
 
- CakePHP (Conference at Tokyo with 140 engineers)
 
- symfony
 
- Zend Framework
 
 
symfony in Japan
- two full books
 
- symfony Perfect Guide
 
- symfony x PHP
 
- also mentioned on some books/magazines (1)
 
- others CakePHP x 4, Ethna, Zend Framework x 3, Ethna, Code Igniter and over 400 PHP books
 
 
symfony in Japan (2)
companies
Dino
consulting, web development. programmer CEO. owns symfony.jp
Asial
consulting, schooling, php|architect translation (before)
UltraSuperNew
web design, development. targetting foreign companies in Tokyo
 
symfony in Japan (3)
- document translation team (works on Google Docs)
 
- symfony Camp in 2009?