Hi Jay, www.asp.net is a good site for learning about the ASP side of .NET, its the web application side. Basically Visual Basic for the web. .NET is also C++, C#, J#, and VB .NET. I personally like developing in Visual Studio .NET, but I donno about for web applications. I use to do ASP for a living, now I do PHP. In some ways, I liked ASP better, but in a lot of ways, I like PHP better. Perl was my favorite. I used that at my last position. Anyhow, that'll get you started. For any mailing lists, go to msdn.microsoft.com, and sign up for their free newsgroups. They have a public news server if you don't.
-Dan Joseph > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Paulson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET > > > I know this is a little off topic but I really need some help with this. > > The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. > The larger company uses .NET from Micro$oft. I of course use all > open source stuff for our web sites and now the new company wants > to come in and pretty much blow away everything I have done and > use their .NET setup. > > I've basically got a month to do research and get my guns loaded > for what I'm sure will be a heated debate about the Open Source > Solution vs the Micro$oft .NET solution. So what I am looking > for is personal and professional opinions about both solutions > (specifically PHP etc), any and all links to good articles about > both solutions giving the pros and cons of both technologies. > Any other mailing lists I can get on to get more opinions about > the two technologies. Are their any links to show the cost > benifits of using Open Source vs Micro$oft .NET? (I know Open > Source is free but I have no clue where to find how much .NET is). > > As you can see any and everything would be a great help!!! > > Thanks a ton! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php