Is Active Server Pages an industry standard?
Active Server Pages is developed and maintained my Microsoft. Although the company has published a lot of information about ASP and associated technologies, ASP has not been approved by any standards body. 4. Can I use Active Server Pages if my Web server is running on a non-Windows machine? Maybe. Through the use of ChiliSoft’s (http://www.chilisoft.net) ChiliASP! product, Active Server Pages is also available for a number of other Web servers and operating systems, including a number of Unix variants. Check with ChiliSoft for the latest details regarding which platforms they support. 5. Why should I choose ASP as opposed to CGI or other scripting methods? There are three main reasons to use ASP: Performance With CGI, each script is run as an executable in its own process. As a result, each time a script is requested the server must: create new process, run the script, kill the (just created) process. This is inefficient and can severely impact the performance of the Web server. The A
