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As a Unix sysadmin with at least a small amount of experience, I would have voted for PHP as well. Large-scale projects are quite implementable in PHP (Wikipedia is the largest that comes to mind), and it is much more versatile than ASP.NET. With ASP, you're tied to Windows-only; with PHP, you can run on any platform, and backend the thing on anything from a plain-text file to an Oracle database.
Your department head doesn't sound very intelligent, at least not from my experience. I could see deciding on JSP over PHP, but nobody with field experience picks a Microsoft solution when they have any alternatives.
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