Aki, I am neither the .asp guru nor the uunet skunk liaison, but here to make a case for AJAX, which BTW, is language semi-independent. Since the main driver of AJAX is javascript, you can use PHP, Classic ASP, ASP.Net or just about any other web language for the back end (and thus by extension, any online database software), so long as you can output webcontent (i.e. HTML, XML etc) on the front end. Come to think of it, you can probably use C# too! :-)<br>
<br>With AJAX, users wont have to download any plugins to make your pages rock, they just need javascript to be enabled on their browser, which it is by default.<br><br>I do not know enough of Silverlight to make a case against it.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:12 AM, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@googlemail.com">aki275@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hey Josiah, many thanks for the uunet info...  I hope the .asp gurus will get back to me on advice forward i.e silverlight or ajax?  :-)</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Josiah Mugambi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jmugambi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmugambi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Aki,<br><br>Talk to UUNET. A good friend of mine also might have some tips on <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET</a> hosting - he&#39;s lurking on the list tooo..<br>

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