Six months into operation, EagleEnvision.NeT decided to use the Microsoft .NET framework for application and web applications (ASP.NET). We chose ASP.NET over PHP for a number of reasons.
1 - Latest and Greatest
The first reason we chose ASP.NET over something like PHP was that ASP.NET has been around long enough to be stable, and short enough of time that we felt we could innovate on the ASP.NET platform.
2 - Enterprise-ready
The ASP.NET team kept the enterprise in mind when building ASP.NET. Because of it, ASP.NET scales well to any range of uses, large or small. Most notably, MySpace has used ASP.NET since the early versions. MySpace does, however, have a very interesting configuration. But that isn't important.
3 - Security
The ASP.NET team highly recommends a multi-tier architecture to prevent attacks on your website. Because of this, if a hacker gets into one tier, it will not affect the rest of the web application. ASP.NET also ships with integrated membership encryption that provides bullet-proof password protection along with data protection. Any sort of data you might want to protect, is protected.
Last month, the Indianapolis Star reported that there was a breach in the security system of the Indianapolis Public Schools new computer system. The problem was that report cards, discipline notices, social security numbers, and other confidential information was compromised and potentially viewable by a search engine. It is obvious that IPS didn't have a knowledgeable IT staff that knew anything about security. With ASP.NET, this sort of thing would have never happened. There is more to that story, which I will explain in another blog post.
Because of these 3 main points of ASP.NET, we have been developing all our site with ASP.NET. ASP.NET is more than a programming language that runs in a browser, it is a secure and Object Oriented approach to safe and secure websites. We are the only web design company in Zionsville that uses this technology and we have innovated within the ASP.NET space over the last few months and we intend to innovate even further in the future.