Surprising Blog - PHP uses less resources than ASP .NET!

I usually yawn at the thought of reading blogs, until I find myself drawn into one after a casual web search. When I find myself wanting to reply to the blogger, then I am really shocked. One such blog/ger caught my eye tonight... the URI is http://www.hwhappy.co.uk/2006/11/30/why-php-is-better-than-asp/#more-7 and yes, I even made a comment, the same I want to make here:

For years I worked with some developers who said ASP was absolutely the way
to go, and that PHP was rubbish because it sucked up system resources, so it's
very interesting to read that "PHP code is much faster, ASP is developed on the
COM based architecture, this is an overhead for the server."

It is interesting to note that it seems this blogger uses "ASP" to refer to ASP .NET, when officially, ASP does not use the .NET framework at all (because it's an older version of the technology, with a file extension of .asp rather than .aspx). I wonder if this abbreviated term will become the norm - as more systems move to .NET and no one remembers ASP ever existed without it?