I spoke with Thijs Feryn, Technical Evangelist at Combell, at the Portland Convention Center while DrupalCon and Symfony Live were both happening there in May 2013. This conversation gives some background and context to Thijs's Acquia.com guest blog post, "Why PHP is for Real".
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/107-why-php-real-meet-thijs-feryn