Who are you to say this? Everyone has their own specifications and preferences, and people naturally work under their own preferable environments. If someone was introduced to PHP being much more enthusiasic about learning PHP over ASP.NET, even with the differences in ability they tend to work better under PHP even if it isn't as powerful in your mind. If someone has some beef with Microsoft they will not program under a Microsoft-based language, plain and simple. PHP can get the job done, why learn another language just because someone else's opinion says it's better? =oP