Asp .net

xbuilder

I have the following questions:

(1) Does ASP .NET run on UNIX?
(2) Does ASP .NET worthy to learn?
(3) IS there a way to compare PHP with ASP .NET

I have programmed in PHP a little bit and trying to
learn web programming in depth in one direction.

I have been a C/UNIX programmer.

Thanks
XB

Shrike

(1) Does ASP .NET run on UNIX?
I think that there is a port for Llinux, not Unix afaik.

(2) Does ASP .NET worthy to learn?
Yes, in my opinion.

(3) IS there a way to compare PHP with ASP .NET
I think the only way would be to use something like MMCache and run some actual comparison tests. I doubt it would be conclusive though.

Why aren't you posting this on an ASP board? 🙂 Ah because us PHP coders are devoted to utilitarianism and Microsoft are a bunch of damn dirty apes!

Having just done a search on Google I found a bunch of pros and cons, so it's really down to coding preference.

xbuilder

Thanks for the reply.
The reason that posted the msg here is because I believe
here we have the true programmers who understand systems
in depth.

tsinka

Hi,

there's a project called mono.

That's a open source (partial) implementation of .NET.

I think the link above is a good starting point.

AFAIK you can compile mono on e.g. Solaris but I never tried to compile it on Solaris so far (but will soon). Mono depends on several libraries/tools so chances might be good that you can compile mono on platforms for which these tools/libraries are available.

Thomas

Weedpacket

There's also dotGNU, where appears to be intending to be what .NET would be if Microsoft's primary objective was not to tie as many customers as possible in to relying on Windows.

xbuilder

Thanks.

I'll do more research on these projects.

piersk

Originally posted by tsinka
there's a project called mono.

Written by Novell if my memory serves me correctly...

tsinka

Not sure ... I think Ximian (mono,GNOME) started/maintained that project and Novell bought/acquired Ximian last year.

Thomas

pohopo

(1) Does ASP .NET run on UNIX?
**They have mono, but once they complete it .net will be on the next version so I would say if you do .net you go with an IIS server.

(2) Does ASP .NET worthy to learn?
**Yes, it is very similar to Java so and since you are a C guy they have C# so it is really not hard to learn.

(3) IS there a way to compare PHP with ASP .NET
**Lots of sites compare to the two. They both have advantages and disadvantages.

(4)I have programmed in PHP a little bit and trying to learn web programming in depth in one direction.
**If you really want to get into web development you should really know how to code in them all. IMHO, They are all so similar that it is really not that bad. As long as you know C and VB syntax the programming world is your oyster.

Bunkermaster

doesn't sun have a solution for ASP .net on unix? I think i saw it on their cobalt net appliance and maybe solaris... worth a check.
Not a fan of ASP .net tbh, I was a load testing expert and crashed many servers doing simple tests on that architecture. Weak link is usually COM layers which can't handle real load. For some reason the hyperthreading lowers performances and contributes to COM unstability.

I never managed to crash anything PHP on PHP itself (most of the time I crashed a PHP application it was sloppy coding and database link management)

(OS win 2k3 server 18 months ago, nothing more recent)

piersk

Dunno about .net, but they definately have a version of ASP that runs on Unix... see here

hkucsis

Originally posted by Bunkermaster
Weak link is usually COM layers which can't handle real load. For some reason the hyperthreading lowers performances and contributes to COM unstability.

(OS win 2k3 server 18 months ago, nothing more recent)

This is exactly why M$ introduced COM+.