@ramsey well, that sucks. Good luck to them in their adventures.
On the other hand, in the (fairly big) company I work for, all of the new services are in PHP :) I guess we could do that in something else, too. But, PHP has been the backbone of the business for ~20 years, so why change it? It's not that it's flawless, being worshipped by management or something like that. It's a tool that delivers.