Lots of new hacks.. :) :)

[dmytton]

Well, you could argue that ASP is free, because it is - but then you have to pay a reasonable amount to have Windows 2000 on the server. And because Windows is popular/massive, more people are likely to develop viruses/etc to use against it. Plus it doesn't seem to be as reliable as Unix/Linux for some reason (anyone know why?).

I suppose ASP is easier to code, I don't know - I learnt ASP first so I would think ASP was easier, and a PHP coder would think ASP hard to learn as they use different ways of coding.

[dmytton]

Migh I also add that it is a shame that nobody has developed a decent forum system like phpBB for free for ASP which is annoying It means if I want to code a site is ASP, I either have to get another server for the phpBB forums, or submit to using ASP ones

that might be because of the limitation of ASP. however using MSSQL instead of Access will help a lot, you can get WebWizguide's ASP forums for MSSQL and I HEAR they arent bad. I tried it with access, a nightmare.

[dmytton]

Access is designed for small databases and not really for web use. But MSSQL can be expensive :S