>- Can you show me where MS is "furiously back-pedaling to be like" PHP?

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/744845.aspx

>- Once you learn .NET it doesn't take longer than VFP.
>- You need to brush up on your COM knowledge. While it may be better than PHP, it has some serious flaws. It's full of security problems and just doesn't scale to meet many demands today.

Can you show me where COM has serious security problems and doesn't scale to meet the demands of most desktop and web applications today?? No excuses, please!

Mind you, PHP is running some of the busiest and most popular sites on the web and 9 times out of 10 developers choose it over .NET. Yet PHP on windows doesn't even support multi-threading or have an isapi module. why, why, why >> because .NET is too complicated and not inviting as a programming environment. Apart from cheerleaders and Microsoft lock-step followers, the marketplace has spoken in favor of open source tools not being locked into .NET...