Well, if you want to know how to put wind back in the sails of a PHP programmer longing to write some ASP.net, well, here's a tip: let him find out that the web servers he's looking at replacing with dedicated ones?  Well, they can run windows server 2008, which runs PHP 5.3... oh, and ASP.net.

That's what I got the joy of finding out this week.  I spent a good part of Thurs & Friday setting up a local server 2008 system using a trial version, and so far, it's been great.  IIS7 is a dream to work with when compared to apache, and I'm loving every minute of it.

Sure, there are pros and cons, but in the end, what works best for the company is what matters.  Oh, and I really don't think I could handle attempting to re-write our current web app in PHP - it's getting long in the tooth and needs a major refresh - I think we're going to push a major version update out for the start of next year with a great re-tooling in ASP.net... and I can't wait!