Below are the common Server Side Scripting technologies:
PHP (very common Server Side Scripting language – Linux / Unix based Open Source – free redistribution, usually combines with MySQL database)
Zend Framework (PHP’s Object Oriented Web Application Framework)
ASP (Microsoft Web Server (IIS) Scripting language)
ASP.NET (Microsoft’s Web Application Framework – successor of ASP)
ColdFusion (Adobe’s Web Application Framework)
Ruby on Rails (Ruby programming’s Web Application Framework – free redistribution)
Perl (general purpose high-level programming language and Server Side Scripting Language – free redistribution – lost its popularity to PHP)
Python (general purpose high-level programming language and Server Side Scripting language – free redistribution)
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