Campus addition advice.

[dajohnson1s]

I am wanting to propose an addition to my campus website. My idea is to make a "craigslist" style cms to allow students to post items they not longer want, campus jobs, ect...

What I have noticed when looking at a cms in general is that php seems to dominate over asp.net. Is there a reason for that?

[VIPStephan]

PHP is free and open source while for ASP.NET you need to buy a Microsoft program (Visual Studio) to compile. Also, although I’m not 100% certain about that, that free availability of PHP has caused most servers to run PHP “natively” while not all of them run ASP by default or you need to have a Windows sever (IIS) which is Microsoft again.