Screencast Hosting - LAMP or Microsoft Technologies

The man behind screencast hosting website screencast.com shares the challenges faced during the developement process:

One of the biggest was whether to use a LAMP stack or Microsoft stack. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It is the defacto open source solution for web applications. The Microsoft stack generally uses Windows, IIS, SQL, and .NET. Our web developers were more comfortable using LAMP where as our desktop developers were more familiar with a Microsoft solution.

For better or for worse (and you could argue it was for worse), we came to a sort of compromise. We would use PHP for the front end and IIS and .NET (running on Windows, of course) for the rest.Link.