Here's the big item to note: All of the sites he notes that are running ASP.net are, as he says "big traditional businesses". They can afford the licensing co

Here's the big item to note: All of the sites he notes that are running ASP.net are, as he says "big traditional businesses". They can afford the licensing costs of MSDN, Windows servers, a batallion of Microsoft "experts" to help them scale and support contracts. Oh, and Myspace is not an application I'd ever hold up as a good examlpe of anything, but I'll admit that it's my own biased opinion (The site is wildly successful, something I can't deny, but incredibly ugly and has crappy usability). I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but can someone show me some small startups using ASP.net successfully? Because to me it appears it only is used by big monolithic business setups - which would be exactly why it gets a bad rap. If it's not accessible to the potential entrepeneur, it's going to be difficult to justify. And when I can setup a Linux server using LAMP for a grand total of $0, why would I pay thousands of dollars in licensing fees to Microsoft, for a toolset that I'm not going to be able to find people to develop on?