I have someone here at my desk arguing that Microsoft's .NET is better than PHP - faster to process, easier and quicker to program, etc.
I've never coded anything for .NET, so I can't speak to that. However, in all the test my company has ever done, php on Linux/Apache blew the doors off of .NET on Win2k/IIS when it came to speed.
They also (claim) that Microsoft's SQL is much faster and such vs. MySQL.
This person is just wrong here. MySQL is one of the, if not the fastest RDMS' out there. MSSQL is, well to put it nicely, SLOW. MSSQL has more features than MySQL (not for long though), but as far as speed goes, not even Oracle can compete with MySQL, much less MSSQL.
Any comments to help me defend PHP or to educate me?
There's no need to defend PHP...it speaks for itself. Not to mention that with most MS people, it doesn't matter how much fact you show them, they won't believe it.
:)
-Mike
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