[thelist] ASP advantages and disadvantages

[shawn allen]

quoth Erik Mattheis:
> On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:40 PM, shawn allen wrote:
> >you're seriously limited by the fact that it runs *exclusively* on
> >IIS, and only on Windows.
>
> Not precisely <http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/>

Ugh... US$495.00 per machine. So it's either that or some rediculously
expensive Win2K server license ($1200 for 10 clients last I checked).

> Not that I'm a MS apologist, but have a few comparisons between ASP
> and ColdFusion. An obvious advantage to using ASP is that it is free
> with IIS which is free with Windows.

The price of IIS is built into Win2K server, so I'd hardly call it
"free". You've either got to buy Windows, or a third-party solution that
seems not to support several key functions of Microsoft's implementation
(Sun's FAQ says they don't even plan on supporting ASP.NET). And Sun ONE
ASP is still limited to a small number of specific OS's.

So, yeah, bottomm line: ASP is expensive, and it locks you into a small
subset of platforms.

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