Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/05/05 23:01

mpinsley@gmail.com wrote:

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This is a completely wide-open question, and subject to a lot of debate
- much of it religious :-).

There is no one good answer to your question, and there's no way anyone
could give you a good answer in a forum like this. There are too many
other variables - like the code you write, the skills of your personnel,
the systems being used (both hardware and software), response time
requirements, skills of your users - IOW dozens of additional things.

What you need to do is to hire a good consultant to help you make a
decision. You need to find one with a lot of experience in many
technologies, but not married to any single one. Such consultants
aren't easy to find, but they do exist.

This consultant would look at all the things I mentioned and dozens more
- to come up with a list of his top three or four recommendations, and
the advantages and disadvantages *TO YOU* of each one.

In the meantime, if you want to be limited to MS products, by all means
C# and MS SQL will work. But if you're looking at something which will
run on Linux and other OS's, I'd recommend looking into other non-MS
products.

PHP and the like are not 4GL languages. Even Java is not a 4GL
language, but there are integrated development environments out there
which can make it look almost 4GL. AFAIK, there aren't IDE's like this
for PHP - but for the web, the combination of a good HTML generator and
a decent PHP development environment can make web pages easier.


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