[Phpwm] PHP Vs .net

[Justin Joyce]

Hi All,

 

Long time lurker although have made one or two posts before...

 

I have a quick question (quick in that the question is short.. I don't
imagine the answers will be!) on the subject of PHP vs .Net as a
development platform for large ecommerce sites... 

 

Our current ecommerce site is built on a MS SQL database and has
recently been re-written in .net (previously asp). The site uses a
number of third party API's who recommend the MS platform as their
preferred solution although in most cases we are aware of other sites
using the same API's successfully in a PHP / MYSQL environment. What I
am looking for are your views on moving the site away from the current
MS platform to an open source solution utilising PHP and other open
source tools / databases... we have talked about it with the .net
developers and they are (naturally) bleating about lack of support and
all the usual BS...  therefore I guess my question is... Should PHP /
MYSQL be seriously considered for a reasonably busy ecommerce site that
needs 24 hour uptime, 99% reliability, PCI DSS compliant security etc
etc. 

 

Thanks in advance for your time in reading this / answering.

 

Cheers

 

Justin


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