> > 3. ASP.NET ties you to the Windows IIS server. Apache is still the > > most used webserver, PHP the most used web scripting language.
Nope, ASP.net runs on Apache too (even without using mono, but classic .NET runtime) http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2005/09/11/424852.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/cassini_apache_101.asp http://www.dotnetguru.org/articles/DotNetFree/CassiniApache/ApacheASPNET.htm Also see Cassini small .NET webserver (mentioned above), ASP.net doesn't need IIS. Plus IIS doesn't know anything about .NET, since when the IIS version included in Win2000 came out there was no .NET arround. It supports .NET via an ISAPI (similar to NSAPI) plugin filter for IIS (ISAPI is for extending web servers with data handlers). It grabs .aspx files and handles them first > While true, at least IMHO the forms based ASP.NET 2.0 model > (which is _very_ close to the VCL model) is vastly superiour > over the template based PHP/CGI and ASP.NET 1.1 models, and > with a _real_ language, instead of a scripting one, so with > decent errorhandling etc and with a magnitude of performance > between PHP and Delphi. > > Also the webserver can better schedule/terminate/clone the > interpreter with a managed language. (back to the corba days) ASP.net's compiled webforms are years ahead from any scripting or serverside-include-style solutions. Not only in debugging. > > So where is the advantage ? It's all a lot of marketing talk. > > Under the hood, there is nothing new or even innovative... > > I like ASP.NET. Also the gigantic size of the .NET API's, and > also a bit the vastly expanded methods of databinding. > However only in combination with ASP.NET you could convince > me that that is something that might be better than what I/we > already have. And then only on Windows, the whole > multiplatform angle is IMHO bogus. See above, it's not only for Windows or IIS ---------------- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2006 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" ++ QuickTime, Delphi, ActiveX, .NET components ++ http://www.kagi.com/birbilis ++ Robotics ++ http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~Robotics http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~robgroup _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0644-0, 30/10/2006 Tested on: 31/10/2006 4:09:59 p? avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
