>>You may want to look at ASP.Net MVC. Very easy to use and it runs fast. In my opinion, PHP is dieing.

A couple of questions, Craig:

PHP is dying compared to what?
MS's history of killing the latest and greatest (Silverlight, Linq-to-SQL, et al) makes one wonder whether PHP or MVC will have a longer life.
I wonder.. is there any data that tells how many sites there are for the varying platforms?


ASP runs fast compared to what and on what environment?
I did two ASP sites (because they were easier to program that way) that ran like pigs on the client's host and then flew when I converted them to HTML/CSS Javascript.



>You may want to look at ASP.Net MVC. Very easy to use and it runs fast. IMO, PHP is dieing.
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>There are several options for web-based printing. SQL Server Report Services (SSRS) (comes free with SQL Server), ComponentOne ActiveReports, Telerik, are just three options.
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>>We are not quite sure as to what technology we are going to go with (either php or asp.net), and this is not my issue here.
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>>What are the alternative approaches for printing in an operational environment (stockmanagement) where documents and labels have to be printed on the fly and reliably.
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>>Thanks for any light you might shed on what is at this moment a somewhat perplexing problem for us.