Quote Originally Posted by dis1411
not really. offhand i recall that ebay used nt4 until within the last year they started upgrading to server 2003

it's still a pile of ****, but it's a free non-microsoft pile of ****. and that's what people care about. i've heard linux users that really think using a windows server = automatic spyware and worms. no it doesn't, unless you're aunt ester. ANY server has to be properly secured.
Linux and UNIX Flavours DO power majority of the world's web/file servers. Around 67% of the world's web servers are served by Apache. Linux is much more stable and secure by default. I had experience with hosting both Windows and Linux servers - and Linux wins by far. Even if you cut off the hassle with security, I still consider Linux file systems superior to Windows file systems and the resource management is much better.

I have never had Linux crash so bad that it had to be reset.