Dynamically Typed has a new posting about the possibility for PHP being the natural upgrade path for ASP 3.0/VB 6.

Joel Spolsky recently posted a his feelings on How Microsoft Lost the API War; an article that's currently kicking up a storm all over (alot of people listen to Joel). Well worth a read whatever your stance.

What I wonder is how ASP 3.0 developers feel about ASP.NET? ASP.NET is software architecture ideals applied, which is great, but I wonder how ASP 3.0 developers, of the type who could care less about OOP and are more interested in completing projects on time, feel about ASP.NET? The phrase "porting an ASP application to PHP" seems to be popping up on the radar more and more these days, PHP supporting different programming paradigms (e.g. procedural, object oriented, functional) without forcing anything on you.

He goes on a bit to talk about the relationship between Microsoft and VB 6 users (of the lack there of). Of course, as Harry notes, learning more VB at this point is more of a pain than it should be - you might as well just learn PHP/MySQL and be done with it.

What's your opinion?