PHP is both opensource and cross platform this makes it better in the long run.

Bugs can be found faster and improvements can be made and distributed easlily and freely because of it's opernsource nature.

Can be moved between OS's with no script modification, you have to like that.

It's all most will ever need and it's FREE.

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