>> 1. Tiobe is a load of rubbish... Than pick your vendor neutral index. What non-MS sponsored stats shows Windows server deployments is greater than everythin

>> 1. Tiobe is a load of rubbish... Than pick your vendor neutral index. What non-MS sponsored stats shows Windows server deployments is greater than everything else combined? C# doesn't touch Java let alone anything else that gets deployed on Linux. >> 2. Have you ever had to manipulate a heavily nested apache or nginx configuration file with sed/awk? With sed/awk? No why would I need to? Especially for multiple sites / virtual hosts I've found nginx is a lot easier to configure than IIS. Isolated virtual host configs make it easy to maintain. Removing a site becomes as easy as taking down a sym link. Common tasks like Reverse proxying, Url rewriting are a synch. >> 3. Name 20 companies that are Linux only. I can name 50 in the FTSE100 that are windows only. Great, this might be our chance to finally get some facts out of you - Looking forward to your "50 in the FTSE100 that are windows only" list. Here's a (more than 20) list of Linux-only adopters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters Big names include Google, CERN, DreamWorks, NYSE, London Stock Exchange,...