Haha. ASP .net is not out dated wilhel, ASP is. And if ASP .net is so limiting how come sites like Dell, LEGO, MySpace, NHS, NewEgg and The London Stock Exchange all highly succesful sites and businesses use ASP .net, a large number of sites in Alexa’s top 500 globally are coded using Microsoft technologies, yes PHP also has a very large market share but I’m just showing that ASP .net isn’t dead, isn’t out dated and isn’t limited. Yes it has limitations, but so does everything on the planet. There’s only so much a single thing can do!
I’m not saying that ASP .net is the best language to code with, I’m not saying the Microsoft are the best company to go for, what I am saying is that stop swaying so far one way you can’t see the other side. It’s things like this which where it is best if you just ‘sit on the fence’ and have a general overview. And I agree with Vincentt, the best option would be to go Open Source as you’re then less likely to be affected by a single companies decision. I like open source and wish I could go entirely source but there are too many limitations in this day and age at this moment, there’s a long long way to go before someone like me can go completely open source.
As for comments about ASP .net, open your mind already, you talk of open source, the main thing that needs to be opened before software is people’s minds.