Jay Paulson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:36 AM said:
> 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). .NET is free as well. It's just a framework that is downloaded from microsoft's site onto your computer. From then on you can write .NET applications. The part that is going to cost you money if you go with the .NET solution is the OS, and the dev tools. Sure you can write .NET with notepad or pico but afaik you can't fully take advantage of it's features unless you have something like Visual Studio from MS, which costs big bucks (me thinks). With PHP, yeah you can run it on IIS but you've still got the cost of the OS to go with it. If you go all open source there is virtually no cost except that of the hardware (which applies in both cases). Hardware on the other hand can cost less for linux because of the efficiency of Apache/PHP and the fact that you don't have to tie up system resources with a GUI if you don't want to. Windows on the other hand needs lots of power behind it. As far as I understand it .NET is a really powerful system to use because you can easily integrate compiled programs. I'm pretty sure you can do this with PHP as well but there are probably a lot more Windows programmers out there than there are Linux and therefore it'd be easier to develop with. (Not totally sure about that though.) Bottomline, .NET is supposed to be really powerful and really great. I don't think you'll find that PHP can do anything .NET can't do. If anything, I'd err on the side of .NET being able to do something PHP can not. Your biggest selling point is probably a cost benefit analysis. > As you can see any and everything would be a great help!!! I hope what I've said counts. Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
