Re: PHP vs ASP.NET "formal opinions" request

> In a such poor country like this, Free Software and > Open Source could be the answer to the government's > software needs. Well, open source and free software are not God. Netcraft surveys the internet and reports on actual server usage. It's always good for a little dose of reality: http://news.netcraft.com/ Hmm. I remember some news about Peru. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=peru+free+software Gives this http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html and, well, this http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26207.html > Unfortunately, MS has the monopoly in the government's > software, and our leaders see GNU like "We don't have > any support for that. Nobody guarantees us the GNU > software's good performance. With MS we can demand > answers to SOMEBODY." They say that they prefer to pay > to get that "warranty". I guess you could always make the argument that, to get Microsoft's attention and get bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hhelp from the monopoly, you have to threaten to break out of it. :-( You might also mention that, if they want to buy support, RedHat and other Linux companies are now selling support. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ Shoot, Mac OS X is a pretty decent buy, too, and ASP does not run native on Apple's systems. > I know that it's going to be hard, but I'm willing to > fight for what I believe in. Wish me luck :D Good luck, but don't be surprised if the road is longer and harder than it ought to be. Make sure you can make a living while you're fighting. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp