ASP.NET and PHP get bundled together
Surprise! Surprise! There is one piece of news which will gladden the hearts of all proponents of Open Source software products. Microsoft Web Installer 2.0 now installs PHP and a host of other open source applications like WordPress, Drupal etc.
This is simply unbelievable. Microsoft offering a platform for PHP which directly competes with its own product ASP.NET, no web developer would have dreamt of.
Microsoft Web Installer 2.0
Currently Web Installer 2.0 is supporting many popular blogging and content management systems. The most popular software packages being, PHP, PHP based WordPress & Drupal and Gallery. A common platform will definitely go a long way in installing PHP based applications on a common platform which might also be hosting an ASP.NET application.
Otherwise, depending upon which Operating system the popular choice would have been either LAMP (for Linux) or WAMP (for Windows). But with one masterstroke Microsoft has done away with many multifarious problems which Web developers were otherwise were having. Now it is possible to run an enterprise application build using ASP.NET and a commercial business application developed using PHP on the same platform.
But why Microsoft would have done that. One most reason which one die hard PHP developer told was that
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