ASP in OSX???

[enrique_d_3rd]

Just bought my ibook a month ago and I have no idea whether or not OSX supports ASP. I'll be needing ASP next term for my theses... what are my options if OSX does not support that type of web technology? Many thanks.

Animo Benilde!

[ginoledesma]

I'm assuming you mean Microsoft's Active Server Pages? Unfortunately, MS's Internet Information Service (IIS) software only works for MS Windows, so you won't be able to run IIS+ASP on your Mac. You will be able to write them, but not test them.

Here're some alternate solutions (but none of them really attractive):
- Get a copy of Virtual PC to run a copy of Windows on your Mac
- Get a copy of Apache::ASP; This will allow you to run ASP using PerlScript (AFAIK, there's no support for ASP/VBScript or ASP/JScript yet)

Sun now owns ChiliSoft. But I don't think you'll want to go this route.

[Edited on 11-14-2004 by ginoledesma]

[directX]

My suggestion is DON'T! Don't use an inferior technology for your enterprise web application - more so for your thesis. My recommendation is either use Java or PHP. Real developers use Java or PHP. [check the philmug.ph and pinoymac.org sites - both use PHP]

[ginoledesma]

Originally posted by directX
My suggestion is DON'T! Don't use an inferior technology for your enterprise web application - more so for your thesis. My recommendation is either use Java or PHP. Real developers use Java or PHP. [check the philmug.ph and pinoymac.org sites - both use PHP]

Posts like these will forever blacklist us from Microsoft. :lol: Then again, using both Macs and Open Source is already a double-whammy.

[chairman]

I don't know if you can substitute .NET for your thesis enrique but you want to give this a look, http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html. There's an installation package for OS X. You can use this to build .NET applications using C#. I haven't given this a try yet sine I'm not really a programmer but we stumbled upon this when we got a project that needed to be done in .NET and since some of us were using macs and linux we decided to search for a way to build .NET apps using open source technologies. Lucky me I'm doing front end work so I don't really have to dive deep into this.

Animo Benilde!

[directX]

Originally posted by ginoledesma

Originally posted by directX
My suggestion is DON'T! Don't use an inferior technology for your enterprise web application - more so for your thesis. My recommendation is either use Java or PHP. Real developers use Java or PHP. [check the philmug.ph and pinoymac.org sites - both use PHP]

Posts like these will forever blacklist us from Microsoft. :lol: Then again, using both Macs and Open Source is already a double-whammy.

Hehehe. Don't think so -- I still get invites from Microsoft events even if I am openly using a Mac and advocating Java and Open Source. Heck, I attended the mPULSE CIO Summit (Microsoft-sponsored) and took out my pbook -- everyone was impressed, of course!

[enrique_d_3rd]

many thanks to all. I'll consider all the options. Again, thanks very much