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Originally Posted by BlueWire
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.
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All accurate. I would throw Python in the mix too, using a framework like Django (
http://django-project.com). Rails like features, but with Python in the background.. a very mature language with a huge community of developers, much more than Ruby. That might change if Rails momentum continues, or it may already have. Django/Python doesnt suffer the same deployment/server setup and speed issues that currently plague Rails, IMHO. It's apache integration is extremely mature, tried and true.
Back to the original post.. I would stick to using open source tools. Its really a no brainer, unless you have some specific requirement that only proprietary software can fill.