Am looking to develop a hosted application in the long-term. Requirements are pretty simplistic, relatively speaking: database-driven with usual record add/delete/modify functionality, a "rich" interface that's nice to look at and work with, and something responsive.

I have programming experience, though it's been 5+ years since I've done anything big and that was VB, C and ASP in the pre-.Net era. I'm not too familiar with OO technologies. Am pretty good with HTML with some understanding of CSS and very basic knowledge of XML.

I'm confident I can pick up new things pretty quickly once I get into it all again but I'm also not really interested in changing careers -- just want to get something up-and-running. Long-term I'd likely hire a pro to take it "big time".

So, what should I use? WAMP, WIMP, LAMP, WIMSA, AJAX, PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, etc.??

As usual, money is an issue at this stage so I'm open to open-source. I do have Visual Studio.

Thanks for the help!

i'm a web developer too and i use ASP and SQL Server 2000. i've already attended seminars on .NET and, based on your current proficiency, i think ASP.NET would be the best alternative for now. ASP.NET takes a little getting used to if you're used to the regular ASP programming since you don't code it straight to the HTML/ASP page itself. it's a bit like Visual InterDev and VB combined where you make use of "code-behind". if you want fast results, go for .NET since it has an easy Package and Deploy feature for ASP.NET, making server side and client side setup and configuration much simpler.