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Matt_
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 Posted - 26 November 2002 : 13:21:04
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Well to clarify the statement about PHP boards-- I think it's fairly easy to say that PHP boards like phpBB or Invision are sort of the ideal that many people aspire to. Admittedly, those products often have teams of developers, graphic artists and so on, while it seems most ASP forums are authored by a single person, or maybe a small group of friends at the most.
I'm not saying that PHP is required to write a terrific forum by any means, it's just that's where "it's at" currently, so to speak. As for comparing the actual merits of PHP versus ASP, there are many things to take into consideration. ASP.net finally closes the gap, but there are still certain strengths and weaknesses of both.
All that aside, as time goes on, I find myself becomig more and more jaded towards microsoft in general. Given the opportunity to 'do it again', I'd probably devote my skills and time towards mastering unix development for server applications and relegating desktop development to VB or something.
I don't think anyone in the unix community would suggest that mySQL is a replacement for MS-SQL, so that's kind of unfair. _However_ it is a far sleeker product than ms-access, which many windows web developers are forced into using. If you want something comercially comparable, you'd probably be running Oracle on BSD or something along those lines.
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