I'm wondering what's more secure and efficient - on a linux server. I heard that PHP is replacing ASP, but my somewhat biased ASP programmer tells me that ASP is more secure than PHP, even on linux.

Thanks..

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-Ananthan

If you are only developing on *nix / Apache or other *nix web servers, then skip ASP. ASP on *nix is not Microsoft's product, its emulation of ASP. If anything I would assume that would make it less secure.

Secondly, generally speaking the world has come to accept that open source allows for greater transparency of security issues and as a result they get fixed faster. You can download the entire source code of PHP if you like. Many do.

You can't do that with ASP.

I think you should make your decision based on platforms you expect to run on. If you never plan on writing for IIS Server again, then perhaps ASP is history for you.

If you predominately write for IIS Server, then perhaps stick with ASP.

If you predominately write for Apache or other non MS web servers, you'd be better off using PHP or something else that is more *nix friendly.

There are so many web development environments beyond PHP and ASP -- the choice is in no way limited to only those two.

(Python, Perl, Java, TCL, etc in serverlet / application server architectures, straight CGI, embedded within web servers aka PHP mod_php, etc, etc etc).

What's your target market... then decide.