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A subtle change - we like PHP :-)

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When I started working with UK developers many years back, one of my focus areas was ASP vs PHP. 10 years on from those days and both technologies are very successful with huge fans of each technology (ASP becoming the much more powerful ASP.NET).

But on IIS, the favourite is by far ASP.NET. On Unix/Linux servers the favourite is by far PHP.

Well - things are changing in the world of Microsoft. We are doing our best to make IIS and Windows Server a great platform for PHP developers.

And to prove a point:

SQL Server Has a New PHP DriverWe announced the availability last week of the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The PHP Driver delivers an API designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications deployed on the Windows platform. P.S. It also works for SQL Server 2000.

IIS7 Offers great PHP support   We have just published a screencast to show how easy it is to get PHP up and configured on your IIS7 webserver using FastCGI.  The popular PHP-based blogging application, Wordpress is used. It goes on to shows how you can integrate a PHP app with IIS7's integrated pipeline by converting Wordpress to use IIS7's built-in Forms Authentication. Good stuff.

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  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/11/20/a-subtle-change-we-like-php/

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    "converting Wordpress to use IIS7's built-in Forms Authentication" I guess 'change' is relative... still going straight for the platform lock-in I see. Just more of the usual "embrace, extend and extinguish". ANSWER: PHP is hugely popular and will stay that way for a very long time. We just think we have a great OS + Web Server to run those PHP apps on (just as we have always liked folks to write windows apps in plenty of other programming languages which are not ours)

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2008
    Whoops – I nearly missed this one. I previously mentioned our more friendly approach to PHP back in Nov