Is ASP use growing or shrinking?

[toolman]

It seems to me that I am seeing more JSP sites lately and less and less of the ASP flavor.

[littleman]

Yeah, and a reduction of MS web servers in general.

[Xoc]

Not true. See [netcraft.com ]. Kind of depends on what you are measuring on how they are doing. Also see [netcraft.com ]

[klewlis]

I still develop entirely in ASP, but I have noticed that there are *very* few jobs advertised for it... as opposed to say, PHP or Perl.

[Tobo]

I have been developing sites in both PHP and ASP - and have been asked on more than one occation to help clients pick the "best" choice.

I always say ASP! It is not superior, but it is easyer to maintain - largely because it is easyer to find developers with VB/VBA/ASP skills (at least in Norway). All schools except the Universities teach VB or ASP...

- Tobo
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(edited by: Marcia at 8:17 pm (utc) on Jan. 15, 2002)

[joshie76]

Surely things will increase with the coming of asp.NET

I've been reading up on .NET lately and I have to say, I'm quite excited about the whole thing. Let's just hope the security is solid.

J

[ralnikov]

Also I could recommend to read technical overview of Windows .Net Server - Is6 section. 5 or 6 pages of new and improved features! With new hardware I hope gain a 3 to 5 times performance increase. Also hope that no more serious bugs with IIS6.

[circuitjump]

>> Let's just hope the security is solid.

joshie76, you forget it's Microsoft! It needs its security bug trademark or how would you go about calling it an MS product?

Anyhow, I much prefer PHP over ASP which is really not that simple when you have it working on a IIS server(ASP I mean), which by the way is supposed to be its home turf.