Re: PHP/MySQL vs ASP/MSSQL?

[Joerg Bruehe]

Hi Jigal, all!


Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> [[...]]
> 
> Win/IIS/ASP/MSSQL might need a bit more hardware to run on compared to 
> Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (aka LAMP). The license costs for a LAMP setup 
> will probably be higher. Both will be able to do the job.
                    ^^^^^^
No flame war intended, but:
Is this a typo, or on which assumptions / figures do you base that?

AFAIK, the whole LAMP setup is free-of-charge GPL software, unless the 
environment requires a commercial MySQL license.
(Support agreements would be a different issue.)

Jörg

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