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Nowadays you can develop with .NET for free just like LAMP. Just get the express editions of visual studio and SQL Server and have at it.

David

Originally Posted by creativeUI Nowadays you can develop with .NET for free just like LAMP. Just get the express editions of visual studio and SQL Server and have at it.

Agreed. I just don't find the SQL Server footprint to be anything along the lines of "light". And the limitations in VS Express wouldn't work for those clients where I need to debug against their remote data.

I'm not dissing MS stuff in my comments in this thread; for the kind of work I do, if I want the outcome to be light and not cost the client licensing fees as they get bigger (SQL Express has performance limitations), then I go LAMP. It's also cheaper to find hosting for Linux with mySQL than it is to find Win2K3 with SQL Server.

It's all a balance; not every tool is a great fit for every job. Right now, I have three ASP.Net projects that are active, a PHP/mySQL web site upgrade just completed yesterday, FreelanceLocalTech is PHP/mySQL, and instead of posting this message I should be working on the upgrade to a Linux manufacturing automation application with a VB.Net WinForms front-end. A good developer learns to choose the right tools for each job.

i wrote my site on ASP.NET - http://digitallights.com

And it's running on a CMS system I built all in ASP.NET - http://digitallights.com/impact.ashx

.NET definitely gets a bad rap for web development, but I have to agree that it is a bit "heavier" than LAMP. although, IMHO, that weight is worth it.