I guess I should have qualified my statement better. When I said server software, I meant servers to host cloud services that need to be easily deployed and sca

I guess I should have qualified my statement better. When I said server software, I meant servers to host cloud services that need to be easily deployed and scaled with demand. If you're writing a server that's only used inside your own company, and thus doesn't need to scale quickly, it doesn't really matter... in which case, Windows is a decent option, especially if you have a lot of windows devs in house. However, for cloud deployment, there are a lot of hassles with scaling on Windows, mostly due to licensing costs and hoops you have to jump through for that. BTW, I write server software for Windows in my day job, so I'm not some Linux zealot who's bashing Windows for no reason. Windows is fine. Non-free licensing is not (when a good free alternative exists).