As mainframe developers migrate from legacy systems to new languages and environments, PHP should be on the short list, said a longtime mainframe programmer who now helps others to adapt to new technologies. Speaking at the Share conference here on Aug. 16, Wayne Duquaine, director of software development at Grandview Systems, of Sebastopol, Calif., said <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2006118,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL082106EOAD">mainframe programmers ought to consider PHP</A> "because it is coming to the mainframe and it has a short learning curve. PHP is easier to learn than any other Web programming language." PHP also features a short development time, Duquaine said. PHP scripts are five-to-10 times more productive than hand-coding a server application in Java or C from scratch, he said. And PHP also easily integrates database management system processing with HTML and XML processing, he added.