what will help me get a job better?

[vital]

Is PHP or ASP more demanding in the real business world today? I took a class in Oracle and learned MYSQL and PHP on my own but I was wondering if it's worth learning ASP?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Combination of PHP and MySQL would be great.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Both. PHP and MySQL are significantly more common, but ASP.NET is gaining a lot of popularity in the corporate world.

 

[SilentZero]

If I were you I would focus on either one or the other. Knowing one extensively and being extremely proficient with it is better than knowing both but to a average extent. Just my opinion.

 

[Nocturnal]

How about being versatile and learning both languages?

 

[vital]

Originally posted by: SilentZero
If I were you I would focus on either one or the other. Knowing one extensively and being extremely proficient with it is better than knowing both but to a average extent. Just my opinion.

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
How about being versatile and learning both languages?

great...

 

[theMan]

PHP

 

[hx009]

Originally posted by: vital
Is PHP or ASP more demanding in the real business world today? I took a class in Oracle and learned MYSQL and PHP on my own but I was wondering if it's worth learning ASP?

Just hit a couple of job and local newspaper websites and do searches for PHP and then ASP. Whichever returns more hits is more marketable in your area. Asking on here is pointless and will only bring personal opinions and linux/windows zealots saying "mine is better!"

p.s. If you are at all proficient at programming, ASP is a snooze to learn. However, I assume you mean ASP.Net, which is also not too terribly hard to pick up.

 

[talyn00]

ASP.NET

 

[darkxshade]

PHP by a slim margin

 

[BrokenVisage]

Proper English before any of that.

 

[thirdlegstump]

ASP if you want to make money by targeting bigger clients. PHP if you want to deal with the open source community and smaller clients. Lots of reasons behind it. I just won't list them.

 

[ManSnake]

J2EE/WebSphere/Oracle

 

[mugs]

I don't think PHP is as popular with bigger companies.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: mugs
I don't think PHP is as popular with bigger companies.

correct. However, do you want to work for a big company? Smaller companies, especially owned by tech savvy people love open source (aka php/mysql versus asp.net/sql server).

 

[George P Burdell]

depends on what kind of company you wanna work with... big corporations usually stick to microsoft solutions, whereas smaller companies will go the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) way. i suggest you get to know both (ASP and PHP), neither is hard to pick up.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

I think big corps are slowly picking up MySQL... can save a lot of money like that.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete
I think big corps are slowly picking up MySQL... can save a lot of money like that.

I think if big companies were going to move to an open-source database, they'd use PostgreSQL. It has some of the features that MySQL lacks that you would find in a more "industrial strength" DB like Oracle and SQL Server (i.e. stored procedures, transactions, constraints, views).