Wishpot ( http://www.wishpot.com/ http://www.wishpot.com/ ) is ASP.NET/C#-based. It's quite a good platform (performance and tooling in particular, LINQ is als

Wishpot ( http://www.wishpot.com/ http://www.wishpot.com/ ) is ASP.NET/C#-based. It's quite a good platform (performance and tooling in particular, LINQ is also an impressive technology). But truthfully I wouldn't recommend it. Other platforms excel in other areas, and the Microsoft community culture is nowhere near as "sharing friendly" as the open source communities. Finding good developers is harder (it doesn't have the geek cred to attract hackers). Your deployment options are more limited (can't just get a cheap shared host to get started). Writing C# is about as enjoyable as writing in Java. (Take that as you will... but to me that's a slight negative). If you were starting from scratch, the reasons to choose a Microsoft platform are not very compelling. You can still create great, fast, performant products - but you can do that on any of the major platforms.