Hi,
If you're just doing web applications, there is a FREE dev environment
right on www.asp.net you can download. Visual Studio gives you added
languages like C#, J# and C++. If you're just doing web apps, the free one
is fine.
Also, I disagree about hardware costs. Windows Server runs fine on the
same types of hardware that Linux does.
-Dan Joseph
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:50 PM
> To: Jay Paulson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET
>
>
> Jay Paulson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:36 AM said:
>
> > Are
> > their any links to show the cost benifits of using Open Source vs
> > Micro$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.
>
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