No I agree, I would prefer not to work in .NET for my personal development honestly, but I do know that like my shop, some corporations or small businesses are

No I agree, I would prefer not to work in .NET for my personal development honestly, but I do know that like my shop, some corporations or small businesses are already locked into the Microsoft stack, and won't consider something like Rails or Django for their production applications. Obviously these are normally for more business oriented, intranet style applications, not normally public sites, so scaling is a little different and normally they will have their own server licenses already.