A business perspective of selecting web technologies for your app development

Many developers will speak passionately about web technologies they use. Major web sites dedicated to specific technical platforms will advocate efficiency of that platform and provide numerous references to high profile and high traffic web sites using this technology.

This can only mean that good and reliable web systems can be build using different popular and less popular web technologies. So what technology to go for? And how to make a choice?

Let us look what web technologies are available for building web sites or web-based applications, and point out some differences between them.

Web technologies for building static web sites and “front-end interactivity”

Server-side web technology of the masses PHP and MySQL

Enterprise-level platforms: Java & .NET