[rzgar_espo]

Viva open source.

[dmac]

The reason why most developers don't use asp.net is because it is bloated and difficult to work with. There are too many different ways to do any one thing: programmers each adopt their own approach making team work difficult. Finally, Visual Studio is only a partial front end to asp.net - you can get part way towards writing a useful app in Visual Studio, but you almost always have to still do hand coding to get it to work. After several weeks of doing that, most developers discover it is faster to just hand-code in asp.net, and then all the acceleration you expected from a graphical front-end is gone. In most cases, unless you have a pure Microsoft environment (and who does these days?), it is better to work with open tools and standards, and that means PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, etc.