Thomas,

Thanks for the clarifications you made. So, between PHP, C#, Java, which among would be easiest for a VFP guy to go to? What about the 'marketability' angle? Also, the 'popularity' angle?

Thanks
Dennis


>Hi Dennis,
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>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 ;-)