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PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net

Posted by Hemos on from the classical-battles dept.

Dozix007 writes "Uberhacker.Com reports : Zend Technologies quietly announced last week the final release of the open source PHP version 5. An interesting article reports the different strengths and weaknesses of ASP vs. PHP, and it becomes quite clear that with the release of PHP5, Zend has taken a shot at ASP's heart. The differences from PHP4 to 5 has created a clear advantage for the new preprocessor over Microsoft's proprietery ASP."

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  1. Well look at that! by rabtech · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ahhh, finally an article that demonstrates, once and for all, that the Open Source community can fling FUD with the best of 'em!

    Good job slashdot editors! We all needed a really good laugh today.

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  2. Grr by nmg196 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is everyone so concerned with the programming language and framework being cross platform? Has everyone forgotten that both PHP and ASP.NET are web development frameworks? I strongly suspect that the vast majority of people will NEVER suddenly need to host their website on an entirely different platform. Most people develop a single website for a specific customer (or themselves) and know the platform in advance.

    Also, in what parallel universe is PHP faster than ASP.NET? It certainly isn't in any benchmarks or reviews I've seen. Google around and have a look. I suspect the author managed to create a few very basic (ie not real world) examples of where he managed to get PHP to perform better than ASP.NET.

    You also do NOT have to pay for ASP.NET - you can download the SDK and deploy a commercial website without paying a penny. Some of the posts above make it sound like ASP.NET is more expensive. It's no more expensive than running PHP if keep the other variables (ie platform) the same.

    Very frustrating to keep seeing so many biassed articles around written by Open Source evangelists with mimimal real-world coding experience.

    I don't see how you can even compare PHP with ASP.NET. It's not even fully OO. It's much more accurate and sensible to compare it to the obsolete legacy ASP than it is to compare it to ASP.NET. It's in a different league.