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I know they did, because they're the ones who claimed they didn't make ANY backups because then they'd be legally liable for any data they restored. Which was their lame-ass excuse for losing 7 years worth of email and assorted other files when some fool shorted out their hard disk during maintenance, and my reason for finding a new ISP that understood the meaning of responsibility to paying customers.

I worked for a while on a web-based application, where we used ASP/IIS with MSSQL server on the backend. We would have loved to migrate to Apache/PHP, but the size of the existing codebase would have made a port too costly. I've heard of a number of other people in this same situation.

The ASP->PHP port would be much easier if PHP supported the ASP object model. This would allow for dumb parser/translators to be written (like asp2php) that could work nearly flawlessly, because arbitrary translations don't have to be hardcoded in. For example, instead of hunting down how to do a redirect in PHP (ie. writing the header manually: this took me a good 15 minutes to figure out), I can just type response.redirect().

If mindshare is what this project's after, I can't think of a better way than to get a horde of gracious ASP/IIS converts. The stability and performance boosts alone should be enough to convince all but the most devout Microsoft fanatics.

Best of luck to ya'.

//Johan

Have you tried MySQL ? or Postgresql ? They both match the criteria of mid-sized SQL database backend.

You should also have a look at Apache/PHP.

I also regurarly see postings on Freshmeat of a tool to translate ASP scripts to PHP. The tool is called ASP2PHP

The uptime of apache and apache/php can be considered a non-issue. They are at least as stable as IIS/ASP and probably even more stable and faster.

Anaconda kicks much tail.

Does anyone else notice a pattern here?

• Anaconda
• Asp and Asp 2
• Boa
• Bushmaster
• Caiman
• Cobra (Mk I and Mk III)
• Copperhead
• Coriolis
• Gecko
• Krait
• Mamba
• Python
• Sidewinder
• Viper 1 and 2
• Worm 1 and 2

Nominating companies or applications to match Hognose, Dodo, and Thargoid is left as an exercise to the reader.