Is ASP running on windows only?

[Hostings]

Hello, i have a question that i need to be confirmed. Is ASP only usable in windows hostings? Is it workable in UNIX hostings?:book:

[jeremy]

ASP is supported on Linux via Apache ASP but this isn't very ASP like and from what I hear, it's more like CGI. The other alternative is Chillisoft ASP but it'll cost a bomb. :)

[biggulp]

its name has changed to Sun ONE Active Server Pages!

[khimhong]

i see no point in running ASP over a linux server. ASP to run on Windows server is most ideal :)

[jeremy]

Originally posted by biggulp
its name has changed to Sun ONE Active Server Pages!

Ooops.... Never used it so didn't keep up to date :D Thanks for the info.

[Ediot]

not too sure about the latest version of Chilisoft ASP. But previous version lacks quite a bit in terms of standard ASP libraries.

[icelava]

Seriously I don't see why folks want to run ASP on other operating systems. The way I see it, the power of ASP lies not really on its core set of library objects but the extensibility of COM/COM+ components. Whatever you cannot achieve by pure scripting CAN be achieve by writing COM components to do the work for you.

That said, I also don't see why people want to (actually I do. legacy is a heavy burden) continue using ASP when ASP.NET completely blows it outa the water. With such a huge library of classes that takes your plumbing job away and true object-oriented programming to develop new assemblies (components) way easier than COM+, business development is reaching an unprecedented high.