Choice #1 Develop in .NET (and for me now, ASP/IIS/MTS/MSSQL), and have it run in 1 place; Windows, or
Choice #2 Develop in PHP/XML/ Cocoon/AxKit/Perl, and having it run many places; BSD, Linux, HPUX, Windows, MaxOSX?
To me, the choice is becoming more clear everyday.
I'll take smart portable development over quick unportable development any day,

And you don't have to give up "quick" either; at least not once you have some experience. PHP and Perl are both great for rapid development!

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";