RE: [PHP] PHP Vs ASP

I think your bottom line is quite off track. ASP is hardly any more suitable for large scale web sites than PHP is. There are *lots* of large companies, as well as large web sites, that use PHP (AltaVista and Amazon to name a couple), and I'd imagine they've made their choice after evaluating the alternatives. Zeev On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Owen Lewis wrote: > Thanks to everyone who's added to this thread, I've read all your comments > and tried to digest them. When I made the initial posting I ddin't realise > how much varied response I'd get....anyone care to sum up? :-) > > A lot of the arguements put forward seem to boil down to pro or anti > Microsoft. Personally I'm not bothered, I just want to get the job done as > best as possible. From reading the responses I'm guessing that in actual > development there's not a lot to choose between the 2, like any comparison > between 2 languages each will have its good points and bad points. PHP seems > to have the edge in access and development speed (at least on small to mid > sized sites and DB's), whereas ASP seems to be the choice for large site > developments (although this could be put down to large company mentality). > > I guess the thing that may win through is the streamlining of development on > both UNIX and NT servers, for this to happen the PHP route seems to win > hands down (I'm quite happy to be proved wrong by ASP or something else). > Maybe I should now be asking the question PHP Vs perl ??? or PHP Vs > ModPerl?? > > Coming at this from a different angle, can anyone give me some good concrete > reasons why we should be changing to PHP from whatever we're developing in > at the moment? > > Thanks again for all you responses. > > Owen > > > > > -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/