One key advantage of WebMatrix is the bundled integration of a development environment, web server and database all in one application. Less surprising is the inclusion of DotNetNuke and BlogEngine.Net as these are developed in Microsoft's ASP.NET but I am curious to find out how easy it is to update the software when new versions are released, or, if it's possible to add other open source projects to the repository. All in all there's around 40 open source applications included in the suite, on what some might see as the Company's first sizeable move into the world of open source. So there's no direct competition from any of these PHP based applications. The move on Microsoft's part may well be because they long abandoned classic ASP in favour of the full fetched ASP.NET which is no doubt, allot better. The truth be told - PHP is not the greatest of the web development scripting languages out there but fights for market directly against Microsoft's own classic ASP. First I thought that it had to be a mistake or a monumental change in direction from the software giant, but it soon became apparent that's exactly what they have done. I was surprised when I first read that Microsoft had released an open source software bonanza with it's latest WebMatrix, and it includes the likes of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and many other PHP based systems.
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