RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

Hi, If you're just doing web applications, there is a FREE dev environment right on www.asp.net you can download. Visual Studio gives you added languages like C#, J# and C++. If you're just doing web apps, the free one is fine. Also, I disagree about hardware costs. Windows Server runs fine on the same types of hardware that Linux does. -Dan Joseph > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:cparker@swatgear.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:50 PM > To: Jay Paulson; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET > > > Jay Paulson <mailto:jpaulson@emmisaustin.com> > on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:36 AM said: > > > Are > > their any links to show the cost benifits of using Open Source vs > > Micro$oft .NET? (I know Open Source is free but I have no clue where > > to find how much .NET is). > > .NET is free as well. It's just a framework that is downloaded from > microsoft's site onto your computer. From then on you can write .NET > applications. > > The part that is going to cost you money if you go with the .NET > solution is the OS, and the dev tools. Sure you can write .NET with > notepad or pico but afaik you can't fully take advantage of it's > features unless you have something like Visual Studio from MS, which > costs big bucks (me thinks). > > With PHP, yeah you can run it on IIS but you've still got the cost of > the OS to go with it. If you go all open source there is virtually no > cost except that of the hardware (which applies in both cases). > > Hardware on the other hand can cost less for linux because of the > efficiency of Apache/PHP and the fact that you don't have to tie up > system resources with a GUI if you don't want to. Windows on the other > hand needs lots of power behind it. > > As far as I understand it .NET is a really powerful system to use > because you can easily integrate compiled programs. I'm pretty sure you > can do this with PHP as well but there are probably a lot more Windows > programmers out there than there are Linux and therefore it'd be easier > to develop with. (Not totally sure about that though.) > > Bottomline, .NET is supposed to be really powerful and really great. I > don't think you'll find that PHP can do anything .NET can't do. If > anything, I'd err on the side of .NET being able to do something PHP can > not. > > Your biggest selling point is probably a cost benefit analysis. > > > As you can see any and everything would be a great help!!! > > I hope what I've said counts. > > > Chris. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >