ZDNet has an article comparing PHP, ColdFusion, JSP and ASP.  Frankly 
the article is not very good but has provoked a lot of very insightful
discussion on Slashdot by people who know what they're talking about, 
and so I offer you the Slashdot link instead:

  http://slashdot.org/articles/00/10/31/1246208.shtml

Good stuff here, and interesting to me because of my recent work with
PHP and server-side Java.  By the way I'm looking for contract work 
in these areas....

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/