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Old 08-08-2007, 10:46 AM  
Libertine
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Originally Posted by GeXus View Post
The only reason .NET tends to have higher rates is due to government contracts. Any company that is a pure PHP shop or .NET shop, will pay equally well for developers. Even the government is starting to use open source (PHP) for certain projects (LOC)... It's only a matter of time for people to realize that what can be done in 8 hours in .NET, can be done in 4 hours in PHP and done better.
Not just governments often prefer .NET. Large non-IT businesses often do as well.

I strongly prefer PHP over .NET, but many businesses seem to believe that anything Microsoft must be reliable (no, I don't get it either), while anything open source must be amateurish.
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