PHP is actually a pretty nifty, simple, server side scripting language. I prefer ASP because of its tight integration with COM, which makes producing fast and scalable applications possible.
As far as MySQL, only those which have no idea about database basics would use MySQL willingly. It is a slow, completely unscalable, poorly designed, poorly implement database.
If you insist on using a free database server, use Postgres (sp?). It is FAR superior in almost everyway.
I tend to use Access (gasp!) for my really small apps (<20 sim. users), Postgres for small/medium apps (>20 but <100 sim. users), and SQL Server for everything but the largest of applications that require real clustering. (That, then, requires Oracle.)
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