In yet another comment on the Microsoft PHP vs. ASP article posted last week, one of the main players in the PHP world, Sterling Hughes, has a few comments of his own.

According to his blog: I've noticed a surprising amount of controversy over this. Which is odd to me, because I can't find flaws with it. Sure, Microsoft focuses on the areas where PHP is weak and ASP.NET is strong. And they fail to mention other open source projects, such as Xdebug, APD, APC and the ionCube accellerator, but other than that they are right on. ASP.NET and the framework surrounding it is a superb technology, and a great abstracted, beautiful, object oriented, reusable, inheritable, designed wonderful holy grail of web development.

He says that it's justified that Microsoft compare PHP4 to the current version of ASP.NET, and not look forward to the upcoming PHP5 release for features/problem fixes.

Thanks to PHPEverywhere for the link...