How Did You Decide Between WISA and LAMP?

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user290 picture user290 · Aug 22, 2008 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

Did you ever have to choose between WISA or LAMP at the beginning of a web project?

While pros and cons are littered around the net, it would be helpful to know about your real experience in coming up w/ criteria, evaluating, deciding, and reflecting upon your decision to go w/ either platform.

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Marc Reside picture Marc Reside · Aug 22, 2008

@Thomas WISA is:

W=Windows
I=IIS
S=SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)
A=ASP (or ASP .NET)

As for choosing between them, I would think that the available resources and talent would be the deciding factor. If you can get great ASP .NET and MS SQL devs, go that route. If you've got a bunch of PHP/MySQL gurus on hand, go LAMP.

The reality is, regardless of the pros and cons of the platform, you'll struggle to get a great system on WISA out of a primarily PHP dev team, and vice versa.

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