As a person who has spent the last 3 years
developing a web based front-end/SQL
compliant db backend solution for an
organisation which effectively IS the OS for
the organisation, the answer is yes. We have
a predominantly VBscript ASP system ( my
original web design course taught this
outdated language) with some C# and VB.NET
aspx pages (moving stuff around the network
solutions etc)[My Uni course taught this more
suited language] and a linux server on a VM
running some php pages ( which is what my web
design course should have taught me ). And of
course we have ajax and suchlike all over.
Yes it is untidy, and aesthetically ugly
(maybe), but it actually works really well.
So either I am not a developer (you'd have a
hard time convincing my employers of that) or
the answer is that not only will they,they
do....