>Whats the advantage ? and does the ASP have a development type environment ???

If you have Visual Studio then you have a good development enviroment with Visual InterDev. (Just be sure to stay away from the IE only features.) Scripts in ASP can be written in VBScript even if the browser accesing the page does not recognize VBScript. All the code runs on the server so you can open dtatbases, run DLLs of any type (VB,VFP,C++,...), etc. on the server and just send output/input info to the web browser. This topic can be fairly involved so you need a good book. Eg: ASP with COM is very scalable. If you wrap you COM components in MTS (or COM+ for Win2000) you can scale you site to handle thousands of hits without a lot of hardware upgrades.

(PS: Mi grew up ina Jamdown - Good fi si de ole flag ya so.)