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Which speed? All the comparisons between PHP, ASP, JSP... say that PHP is the winner. For example here.

PHP5: Ready For The Enterprise? --> I think PHP5 will be ready after the first round of bugfixing of course ;->

No, I don't work for them, but Linuxcare has a professional looking website using the CEO-lingo that might comfort the big-wigs you need to convince. There are other companies that support Free Software too, check out Red Hat's Support Services. A site called OpenEnterprise looks to have a ton of resources on exactly what you're asking for.

Also, take a look at IT Management's special report on Linux. It offers a lot of ammo to you in making a presentation. You can point to the other heavy-hitters that are using Free solutions and have concrete examples of success.

The same site even has an article entitled Selling the 'Suits' on your IT project which looks to have some good advice for you.

- extremely low cost web sites with limited functionality

You should quickly share your insights with the folks over at Yahoo! before they switch their whole site to PHP.

Yahoo Switches to PHP

Please troll elsewhere:

Yahoo Embraces PHP, Expands Open-Source Commitment

PHP Usage Stats

php is the best whether it is version 4 or version 5 ... also taken from here
"PHP is not a blindingly fast language, especially when handling large code bases," notes George Schlossnagle, a PHP performance expert and principal consultant at Omniti, an Internet consulting company. "The lack of built-in script caching and language optimization make its out-of-the-box performance disappointing. Fortunately, when configured and tuned correctly, PHP can provide performance on par with Perl and ASP. "

PHP5 Article

Actually a beta of PHP5 is expected in March of 2003 and then the final to be released in summer of 2003. Read here for the full story.