"In 'The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP', Harry Fuecks suggests that PHP needs [someone] to get together and write a detailed paper on how it works and why PHP scales", writes Sebastian Bergmann in a new post on his blog. He also says that he could not agree more with Harry.

At the '3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software' last week, Sebastian was confronted with questions that could have easily been answered by referring to a paper like this. If a paper such as this existed.
In 'Things That Have No Name', Kristian Köhntopp started to collect ideas that are partly related to this. But this is not enough for people outside of the PHP community, especially for people from academic communities, Sebastian writes.

"I would be glad to help with writing such a paper, although I am not an expert when it comes to large-scale PHP deployment. But I think I know how to present the relevant information to people outside the PHP community in the form of a technical paper. 'Comparing PHP, Java, and ASP for Web Application Development' and 'PHP at Yahoo!' could be good starting points to find topics that should be discussed in the