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It turns out that there's a thriving project for running PHP on an ASP.NET web server... oh pardon me, there's only one .NET web server, and that's IIS on the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The .NET interpreter for PHP allows execution of unaltered PHP code, and mixing of .NET and PHP objects. This is really very powerful stuff, if it works as advertised. It is in 2.0 Beta 2 after all, so I'm thinking it's working quite well.

Keep in mind that this is clear "embrace and extend" behavior. Embrace PHP by letting it run on Microsoft's system, and then extend it with proprietary Microsoft technology.

I suspect many .NET shops will use it, absorbing the best open source PHP projects into their own product lines to boost their proprietary software fortunes.