Major Platforms in Web Development Environment

Written by GtoRMan Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:16

Microsoft’s ASP.NET/IIS/Windows Server and Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP or usually known as LAMP are two major web development platforms. That is supposed to be meaning that Windows or Microsoft coder surely would be using ASP.NET. This can be an obvious selection because its development tools come in similar set to every other MS application.

Using Microsoft Web development tools demand you to acquire licensing fees. This is pretty different to LAMP which costs zero pennies since it is an open source platform. Even though IIS and .NET technologies have been regularly bundled with Microsoft as well as Windows Professional OS, the Microsoft Web development tools still costs licensing fees.

When come in term of installation purpose, both ASP.NET and LAMP work properly just like how each of them usually perform the installation. While Microsoft makes use standard wizard for installation at server and client sides, LAMP goes for a series of dialogs. Client here means a savvy coder or programmer.

Maybe between LAMP and ASP.NET has its own specialty, but speaking of benefits they bring, they play pretty fair. Let’s get closer to Apache/MySQL/PHP first. The advantage it brings is that it can be applied over virtually any host, without paying too much concern on hardware or OS used.

When you select the PHP hosting, you can get the easy way to run it under Windows (WAMP), Apple Mac (MAMP), Linux/Unix (LAMP), Sun/Solaris (SAMP) and more. Meanwhile, ASP.NET is claimed to be able to run under Windows and a virtual machine as well as framework on a few other OSs.

More importantly, other benefits gained by using ASP hosting include language flexibility and error handling. Also, it contains code-behind structures to give alternative for coder to develop a processing module without producing significant impact toward the user’s display or content. Moreover, ASP implements a more structured coding environment than LAMP does.

Actually, the significant point is that it can be hard for you to find which one is superior to others around the Web development environment. Most recognizable major platforms are equipped with valuable features. They are believed to be superior e-commerce platforms, all of them, especially with large and dedicated user groups for support.

If you are expected to make exact decision of which platform to choose, perhaps you can go back to the budget part. In addition, programmer resources and the availability of Web hosting options can become the key factors for choosing the reliable platform.