Photo: Andreessen looks forward

Ning.com founder Marc Andreessen speaks at the Zend/PHP conference Oct. 19 in Burlingame, Calif.

"My new company is running a combination of Java and PHP. This is something I get no end of crap about," he says.

But the Netscape pioneer feels that PHP, which has received the blessing of major powers in the computing industry, has a brighter future than does Java.

Photo by Stephen Shankland