I tried Chilisoft's ASP on Linux for one week and killed it.  As one person
mentioned, ASP 3 probably won't be supported.  This BIGGEST reason against
it is even more limiting.  You can't use COM components.COM runs only on
Windows, so you lose some of your greatest functionality.  If you want to
set up reusable components, you have to write them in java... which makes
you wonder why you just don't use JSP since you apparently have java coding
ability.

ASP is a Windows only solution.
As far as MySQL, use Postgres.  Better open source database.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Walker" <danielw@w...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:11 PM
Subject: [pro_php] Re: To PHP or not?


> Huurm,
>    As an ASP coder, myself, I would inclined to ask the very opposite: why
> code ASP on a Linux box, when you have PHP available? The best you get
> from ASP-for-Linux is ASP 2.0, since so much of ASP 3.0's calls are now
> made to the OS beneath, not to IIS any more.
>
>     It seems to me that, for Linux at least, the PHP, MySQL, Apache sever
> route is a much more tried-and-tested and highly documented one to
> follow. Sometimes the 'path more trodden' is the better one - true the
> scenery ain't as great, but it's safer :). You must remember that there
> are tens of thousands of PHP programmers out there in the world, whereas
> the number of Linux ASP programmers... well, not many, put it that way.
> It's support forums like this one, you turn to when you get stuck, a lot
> of the time, isn't it? If no one else is doing it, there'll be no one help
> to you.
>
>     Tell them to stop being so conservative... after all, it ain't rocket
> surgery :)
>
> Daniel Walker
> Wrox Press
>
> > After reading the book and completing a resource tracking app in PHP, I
> > must say that I found PHP very enjoyable and easy. Along the way I
enjoyed
> > input from many very nice fellow PHPers via net user groups. The company
> > is happy with the app and I would like to do more with PHP but I
> > continually run in to opposition from developers, who are strict ASPers,
> > at my company. They alwasy ask, "With the multi-platform options that
> > companies like chilisoft bring to ASP and with so many of us already
doing
> > ASP, why do we need to mess with PHP"? I would love to hear from anyone
> > who has something to say on this topic.
> >
> > -Michael
>