When you work for a company that already runs on MS infrastructure. Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow also claims that they have much lower server requirements becau

When you work for a company that already runs on MS infrastructure. Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow also claims that they have much lower server requirements because C# inherently runs faster than non-compiled languages such as ruby/python/php, but of course there is some debate about whether that balances out the higher cost of IIS/SQLServer licenses. I'm not an expert in ASP.NET MVC and I'm not a hater either -- but it doesn't seem to offer anything that Rails doesn't (other than aforementioned runs-on-MS-stack and compiled language). Would love to hear other opinions from people with more .Net MVC experience, though.