Which offers better prospects - PHP or ASP.NET?

Some advantages of ASP .NET include: Greatly increased performance by running compiled code and caching application functions Integrated security, supports form based user authentication, cookie management and automatic redirecting of unauthorized logins Rapid web application development with reduced code Better language support. ASP .NET supports any of the conforming .NET languages, including C#, VB .NET and C++ ASP .NET Site has a large set of programmable controls XML based components ASP .NET Site supports event driven programming The ASP .NET Site provides better scalability with greatly enhanced server to server communication, making it possible to scale an application over several servers Easier configuration and deployment. Configuration of an ASP .NET Site is done with plain text files. Configuration files can be uploaded or changed while the application is running. No need to restart the server. With ASP .NET Site server restarts are unnecessary to deploy or replace compiled code Some advantages of PHP include: Simple to use and learn Doesn’t require a Windows Server to run A lot free existing code libraries and frameworks Open source Basically, PHP is free and easy to use, in order to quickly implement some functionality that will run on just about any server. As far as better prospects, if you mean in terms of what you should learn, I would say learn both. There are probably many more potential clients using PHP applications on cheap servers, with small budgets. Though, if you really care about software development and would like to provide the best quality solutions, C# would be the way to go, if those were the only 2 choices … Java web applications provides many of the advantages of ASP .NET, without the Windows server requirements or Microsoft dependancies, will run on many more devices and is the language of choice for Android based mobile app development. read less