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... most people here are php & mysql fans
personally i think ms sqlserver is incredibly powerful and is much better than mysql for database driven sites.
my main sites are ms/asp/vbscipt based because thats how i started, my more recent less important sites are apache/php/mysql because it's cheaper!
learning basic php and stuff is very easy
I started out with ASP/MSAcess and often had to decline offers to design sites based on PHP/MySQL. I put an end to that loss of money by learning PHP/MySQL!
To this day, I write code on both platforms and they both have benefits.