>There are simply not enough competent engineers who master UNIX and who can build beautiful minimalist systems like StackOverflow's StackOverflow is built on

>There are simply not enough competent engineers who master UNIX and who can build beautiful minimalist systems like StackOverflow's StackOverflow is built on Windows not UNIX. I know I am nitpicking here but there is a larger point. The technology choice is rarely the bottleneck.