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PHP: A New Server-Side Scripting Alternative

ColdFusion and Active Server Pages are widely used server-side scripting platforms that earned their popularity, in part, by being deployable on the Windows NT operating system. Indeed, ASP is a native Microsoft technology, so it should come as no surprise that ASP cultivated its following by tapping into the huge Windows NT user base. Allaire initially deployed ColdFusion in a Windows environment but later expanded its horizons to include the Solaris (from Sun Microsystems) and, most recently, the Linux operating systems.

Does this mean that during all that time, developers working with UNIX platforms only had Perl to work with? Definitely not. The open source community has been steadily providing ...