ASP, PHP and CFM

Active Server Pages, or ASP, is a technology introduced by Microsoft. ASP's are server-generated pages which can call other programs to do things database functions, form processing, basically similar things that CGI could do. One advantage ASP has over CGI is that it runs as a service on a particular machine, allowing it to take advantage of server-side features such as multithreaded architectures. As Microsoft would say it, "Active Server Pages is an open, compile-free application environment in which you can combine HTML, scripts, and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions. Active Server Pages enables server-side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and Jscript." One major issue is that you cannot run ASP scripts on a UNIX based server, although there are a few companies that have released ports to UNIX.

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