To: Brian McGarvie The number one "good thing" that php will offer over asp, is that it can be deployed on a free OS, and a free webserver.. proper licensing on an iis server is generally several thousand.. using mysql, or postgre over ms-sql/db2/oracle is also a big money saver.. of course there is the flip side...
A larger company will see the cost of licensing compared to the talent pool available, as well as the fact that you have "someone to call" when you need support for 2K-Server/IIS/ASP/MS-SQL... that you won't quite get any cheaper for Linux/Apache/PHP/mySQL. There are trade offs... if you are tired of the licensing that ms is using.. and moving towards.. this is the biggest factor.. the new windows licensing will cost a large amount for windows, and office over the next several years there won't even be a release.. the next estimated windows release is going to be in 2005-2006, so that is 3-4 years of active upgrades, with no REAL software updates, beyond what they have offered free in the past. I think that MS has been an okay company overall in the past, however the new licensing system, imho goes too far... anti-piracy in windows, okay... forcing people to pay for temporary licenses for their office software, and operating system, without any benefit... that is too far. -- ======================================================================= Michael J. Ryan - tracker1[*at*]theroughnecks.com Roughneck BBS: http://www.theroughnecks.net telnet://theroughnecks.net ======================================================================= Y!: aztracker1 - aim: azTracker1 - icq: 4935386 - msn: see email One program for aim/icq/yahoo/msn/irc - http://www.trillian.cc/ " Brian McGarvie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I hate replying with this answer... > > but use google for 'php vs asp' and you'll get too much info to present = > ;) > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=3Dphp+vs+asp&ie=3DISO-8859-1&hl=3Den&met= > a=3D > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: R.S. Herhuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 11 July 2002 6:36 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Available PHP Whitepapers > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > My CIO is impressed with what I have been accomplishing using=20 > > PHP and is > > considering updating a few of their aging ASP applications,=20 > > but he needs > > textual ammunition to present to the management committee to=20 > > do so. So > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any technical whitepapers on PHP > > geared towards management that I could give him to salivate over. > >=20 > > Thanks, > > Ron > >=20 > > --=20 > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >=20 > >=20 --- Synchronet NewsLink v1.00 Beta * Roughneck BBS - www.theroughnecks.net - telnet://theroughnecks.net -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
