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the reason for choosing php over asp is the whole opensource thing.. i'm sure microsoft has put quite a bit of work into this whole asp/.net business and that it works very well but it feels nice knowing that if i need help with php, i can seek it from thousands of excellent php users that know everything that there might be there to know and probably encoutered the problems i am facing on their own... these people use the language and want to improve the language... it is as if i'm trying to say that there is sort of a "community" or culture among the open source / free software that proprietary technolgies just dont create
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Actually there is quite a community around Microsoft products. You should visit the Microsoft.public news groups or sites like
www.gotdotnet.com. There are all sorts of people there willing to hep people with problems. One advantage of a commercial program is that if there are bugs found someone one will be paid to fix them. With open source one either has to be knowledgeable and have time enough to fix a bug or hope that someone else will.