[davismwfl]

I agree some but not totally. For example, I only run IIS as a web server for Windows as so far nothing else does nearly as well as it does on Windows IMO (I use nginx on Linux). As well MSSQL is the goto database on Windows. MSSql is pretty damn nice too although scaling and licensing is very expensive not to mention the hardware you need to run it.

But when you get into distributed software solutions which is mainly what I am working on, it is hard to get the same scalability and functionality out of Windows and Windows native products. For example, a decent messaging system like RabbitMQ either has numerous Windows specific quirks or just won't scale the same requiring more servers to maintain throughput and reliability. Not that it can't be done though, just it really changes the cost factor and the architecture. I can even use SQL Server Broker which is pretty good but again, now the costs go up pretty significantly both in terms of hardware and licensing as you can't just run it on a bunch of commodity/virtual servers full or Ram.

I made a great living off Uncle Bill and the entire Microsoft ecosystem, and I am not a Windows hater (I really like C#), I just recognize for most solutions of scale it doesn't work out without significant cost and tradeoffs.

[UK-AL]

I actually run a distrubted website using NServiceBus. I don't really have a problem.