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Recently it was announced that Zend and Mirosoft are collaborating to ensure PHP will run on Windows IIS servers with equal (or close enough) performance of Linux/Apache servers.

While all reports claim that “it’s giving users another choice not to choose linux”, I find myself asking “Why would I want to use PHP on IIS?”

Once upon a time I used to run PHP as a CGI on IIS when I was starting out, something I don’t reccomend to anyone. It was slow, hard to setup and didn’t help me learn about the real world servers using Apaches’ modules.

The biggest feature of the LAMP combination is the cheap price tag. Hosting providers that use Windows Server and IIS charge more to the customer.

However, these changes may convert some ASP developers to use PHP alongside their applications, and slowly raise more demand for PHP programmers.

See the articles here:

• Zend Announcement
• Australian IT

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