[wplug] ASP and Linux

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

Sometime in June Ben Beige assaulted keyboard and produced...

|Isn't there an ASP to  PHP converstion program out there?
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|Ben

yep: http://asp2php.naken.cc/

since i've never used tools like these (f2c, asp2php, and the like) i don't
know how reliable they are. i doubt a businees would want to be dependant
on writing code in asp and then converting it to php. if the person who is
writing the code isn't willing to consider a different programming language
(php, perl, pythong, etc), then i think he would be safer either sticking
with what he's currently using or sun's chilisoft (Sun ONE)
implementation. 

if the webperson is willing to switch, then a converter like the one above
would be good for migration. 

on a humorous note the chilisoft people have instructions on removing iis,
which they refer to as  ..." IIS Exorcism".


http://www.chilisoft.com/solutions/removeiis.asp


the original poster might want to pose the problem to the webperson in a
financial framework:

if you want to use asp you have two options:
  o run it on windows which is unstable, expensive, and moving to a nice
    and happy subscription framework. include any license costs associated
    with running iis. i havent used it since the beta and have no idea if
    there are any costs. also don't forget to mention that quite a few
    worms have been released for iis-this can lead to downtime.

  o pay the folks at Sun ONE at least $495 for every computer it's
    installed on.

or you could use one of the many free programming/scripting languages which
work on almost any *nix and windows. to me being tied to an os like this
would be frightening, but i'm an individual. i guess a lot of companies
don't mind forking out the cash, especially if it's not much considering
their total expendatures. 

 

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