Why PHP?

[ArtWilliams]

Because it is free as in free speech and free beer! You don't have to make Bill Gates richer. The license lets you control your source code and change it if you want. From my experience open source software just plan works better too. I've never had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall the operation system. I know Windows users who do that every 6 moths on purpose. Want more info? Read the Wiki entry.

Originally Posted by mrhappyface

Something else I was just posting got me thinking about something I've been noticing a lot of. It seems like a vast majority of sites are running LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP) setups, and I'm wondering: with all the other possibilities out there, why use PHP? Why not Java, .NET, Perl, etc? Why Linux? Why not Windows? Is it just 'cause that's what everyone else is running?