Advantages of ASP and other .NET products over PHP:
- Development time tends to be faster
- Easy communication w/ desktop apps build in .NET
Advantages PHP over ASP:
- More PHP Developers Worldwide
- Lower costs involved (open source)
- The server environment it runs on is more stable
- The language itself is more stable (When coded correctly)
Final Conclusion:
- Database driven apps that are only web-based should be built in PHP or Rails or CGI. (My preference being PHP & Rails. But CGI still has a little life left in her. Rails is blazing fast btw but coders for it are expensive and hard to find).
- Online apps that have a desktop app component should explore using ASP and the .NET line of products.
Hit me up on ICQ if you want to discuss further
