Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-08-01 Thread Joel Rees
I hate to rain on this parade, but, I'm a pretty good PHP programmer, and things I could knock out in a couple of hours seem to be WAY more difficult to do in .Net. This is the pith of the question. If you knew what you're doing, anything from Microsoft takes longer to do than doing it the

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi Jay, www.asp.net is a good site for learning about the ASP side of .NET, its the web application side. Basically Visual Basic for the web. .NET is also C++, C#, J#, and VB .NET. I personally like developing in Visual Studio .NET, but I donno about for web applications. I use to do

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Chris W. Parker
Jay Paulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:36 AM said: Are their any links to show the cost benifits of using Open Source vs Micro$oft .NET? (I know Open Source is free but I have no clue where to find how much .NET is). .NET is free as well. It's just a framework

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Dan Joseph
Server runs fine on the same types of hardware that Linux does. -Dan Joseph -Original Message- From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:50 PM To: Jay Paulson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET Jay Paulson mailto

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Chris W. Parker
Dan Joseph mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:55 AM said: Visual Studio gives you added languages like C#, J# and C++. I thought the basic framework had both VB.NET and C# included? Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I've basically got a month to do research and get my guns loaded for what I'm sure will be a heated debate about the Open Source Solution vs the Micro$oft .NET solution. So what I am looking for is personal and professional opinions about both solutions (specifically PHP etc), any and all

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Dan Joseph
: RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET Dan Joseph mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:55 AM said: Visual Studio gives you added languages like C#, J# and C++. I thought the basic framework had both VB.NET and C# included? Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread John W. Holmes
Jay Paulson wrote: The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger company uses .NET from Micro$oft. I of course use all open source stuff for our web sites and now the new company wants to come in and pretty much blow away everything I have done and use their .NET

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Wendell Brown
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:04:02 -0400, Dan Joseph wrote: Yeah, the framework does. The free editor is for web apps, the Visual Studio is for normal apps. FYI, I just had Visual Studio ordered for me - a single license for it with a 1 year subscription to MSDN was over $2800! I don't know yet what

Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Nka
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:35:55 -0500, you wrote: I know this is a little off topic but I really need some help with this. The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger company uses .NET from Micro$oft. I of course use all open source stuff for our web sites and

Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread John Manko
You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new. - David Lee Nka wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:35:55 -0500, you wrote: I know this is a little off topic but I really need some help with this. The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger