Take my advice (from a lesson I learnt the hard way):

Never develop something complicated directly in ASP. You'll just have to rewrite (even if only partially) your code.

Use asp only to call your real code that lives in COM objects' methods.

After several MS presentations on the latest technologies, MS DNA, etc... somebody from the audience asked
the best question I've heard on asp/IIS/MTS. He said:
"I've listen presentations on MS DNA, IIS, ASP, scripting all day long and it's really nice. I only want to know
if you would use ASP only to develop a real life application."
And the speaker replied franckly: "Are you crazy? I'm not stupid. I would use asp only to call the real methods in
real COM objects. Probably I would have only one object method call in my main ASP. I am showing you
everything with asp only because it's easier for me to present it in this way."

And I think that was the best info I got form those presentations!

Vlad

>Just my dumb thoughts, but scripts can be applied to non-traditional executable compnents, like VBScript or JScript in ASP. I think its priceless.