>Hi Experts,
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>Which will be more practical/beneficial/wise overall for a VFP guy with several years of experience to move on to for a web apps: LAMP or go .NET? Kindly advise me also as to which is being more commonly used.
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>Thanks in advance for any insights, comments.
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>Dennis

Hi Dennis,

you don't have to use either one. LAMP implicates a complete system change from M$ to Linux and .net implies a complete binding to M$.
So, from my point of view the question should not be: LAMP or .net. You should ask, which language offers me the best possibilities for my future tasks. PHP (as part of LAMP) or C#/VB.net (as part of Visual Studio) or perhaps Ruby on Rails or even JAVA might do the job. Nowadays you do not have to select a complete package and try to use it for everything. We still use a lot of VFP as frontend and Informix as database. System near apps are done in C# and our web-apps are Eclipse-based (JAVA) and also use the Informix DB. However the database is replacable and could also be PostGreSQL, Oracle or SQL Server.

And BTW: there is also WAMP, the windows based LAMP ;-)