> First of all PHP is multi-platform, ASP runs only on windows based systems
> as I am aware, ASP also uses a load of COM objects which are rather slow,
> so yes it is true that PHP is faster than ASP but obviously depends on
what
> you are doing.

there is such a thing as apache asp which runs on *nix servers but having
never used it or know much about asp I don't know if there are many
differences between this and the windows version