Not reading the newsgroup, I missed the original. But here's my two cents.
First, do not use Microsoft products on a web server unless you want to spend all your time applying patches and cleaning up the results of your server being used as a warez site. The initial setup might be easy, but the ongoing maintenance will kill you. Not to mention the fact that it doesn't make good business sense to pay for something (web server + programming language) when you can get equivalent functionality for free. Beyond that, the question is which technology to use. The answer is "what do your developers and sysadmins know?" If you have Java developers, then use it. If you have PHP developers, use it. There's an obvious limit to this (i.e. "I have cobol developers), but anybody reasonably trained in modern computing will be able to use any of these languages to accomplish the goal, so the differentiation is the startup time. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
