I'm about to work on an intranet site that has to log into a windows based accounting program with com+ objects (on a windows server with IIS or apache). Specifically I have to be able to compose a few of the objects together, and invoke COM+ functions to read and update the database (The accounting product is Computer Associates Accpac, which provides a com+ database tier for access to the database... a good thing as the table structure is nightmarish and has no foreign keys...). I know that ASP might be the best way to do this, but would like to experiment a bit with PHP and vbscript and see how it works.
The question is this: Can PHP work as well as ASP with COM objects as far as speed and reliability? Or, since I have to use so many COM calls, would I be better advised sticking to ASP?
Thanks for any input,
Kent
