Re: Looking for recommendations on a programming language for a web application.

Paul wrote:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Let me be the one to privately decide on the validity of the comments.
All options are open: ASP.NET, PHP, Cold Fusion, Oracle, AJAX, XML, and

As Steve pointed out, all these aren't programming languages, but applications and methods too.

Choice of database, it has to do how thick your wallet is

The king of databases is usually given to Oracle, you pay for a license per CPU (Dual core may be counted as two CPUs, check that at www.oracle.org).
The prince of databases is nowadays MySQL and is a quite popular and big sites like google.com does use it. License is per computer, and is cheapest.
The black sheep MSSQL, is both expensive and slow (half speed compared to Oracle and MySQL).

Of the languages PHP is the one that runs on the most platforms, even such that normally wouldn't be picked as a server OS, while ASP is limited only to microsoft servers. ColdFuson is limited too and quite expensive to use.

AJAX is just javascript and works against any serverside script language, but relays on that the user has enabled javascript (there are plenty who disable javascript).


We also want to ability to provide spelling and grammar checking.

This part is best to left for the web browser, check FireFox 2.


When building or adding parts; we want to be able to search the parts
inventory.
I would expect a database handling 1000s of users, each with it own log
in to access it own data, and maybe an average of 250 users in the
database at a time.

PHP & MySQL with extras you want, like AJAX, pdflib, ...
I would suggest you look at more open types of presentation media.

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//Aho
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