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Originally Posted by Azoy?
OK so I am going to ask the majority here.
Any particulars about one or the other that makes it worthwhile besides the Microsoft license issue.
So let?s pretend both cost money or both were free which you would choose based on the actual language itself?
What do you prefer to work with? PHP or ASP.NET and why the preference?
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In decent-sized cities you can find a number of junior to mid-level ASP.NET programmers. If the cost is not a problem -- and you anticipate building a web-based system that will be used, abused, and updated aggressively for a few years -- then basing your tech on ASP.NET is probably a good thing, if simply because you'll always be able to build out your staff.
PHP developers are increasingly difficult to find lately. I mean "PHP developers," not "guys who've written a few things in PHP." After having dealt with some large PHP projects in the past couple years, I would definitely consider ASP.NET or Java for my next project simply because of what I perceive to be a gap between the number of qualified PHP developers and the number of qualified ASP.NET or Java developers.
I expect this to change in the not too distant future. Personally, I think PHP is terrific (and Perl better ;P), but it's wearing on me that there seems to be a lack of professional-level PHP developers in the wild looking for new work.