.NET means many things. I guess that you want to make a choice between ASP.NET and Zend Framework. It depends on what operating system you are planning to deploy applications on. You should stick with ASP.NET if you use Windows extensively. For me, LAMP is a better, more powerful alternative to Windows/MSSQL/ASP.NET:
+ Choice: more choices + Price: your development cost and your customer's cost when they buy and deploy your products + Community: PHP communities is more friendly and helpful + Lot of open source applications that you can try and get rid of if it they do not fit your need. + Linux is more powerful, scriptable, flexible and reliable than the counterpart. + PHP is a more compact and web friendly language. VB.NET and C# are system programming language and they are much more verbal. One PHP line of code can be rewritten in tens of VB.NET or C# lines of code. + No lock in one IDE, one OS and/or database server + If you care about web standards, go PHP. ASP.NET tag soups is substandard-oriented + ASP.NET is not flexible and non MVC. Smarty/PHPSavant + PHP classes at PHPClasses.org == ASP.NET way of thinking. I don't like component-based frameworks like ASP.NET because it always tries to be desktop-alike environment. It comes with no surprise because MS is a desktop shop. I hate to see some javascript generated automatically by IDE to make webpages work with single form architecture. I hate to see evil ViewState and substandard WebForms + Mono is a toy project. ASP.NET has several advantages + Optimized for Windows + Better tooling support + Desktop application developer friendly + State-of-art integration with MS products + You don't need to care about web standards Just my 2 cents On 10/7/07, rogeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is of course a no-brainer to me, but my current task is to convince > the > company I work for to build our next product using the Zend Framework > instead of .Net, and there are a lot of .Net enthusiasts here. > > Does anybody have any good arguments as to how and why using PHP and the > Zend Framework is a superior choice to .Net? Has anybody had convince > their > organization of the same sort of thing? > > Thanks! > > Roger > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/.Net-or-Zend-Framework--tf4580976s16154.html#a13076861 > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- -------------- http://groups.google.com/group/phpvietnam
