[ejs]

I read this Jeff's blog as some is interesting, but I always laugh at how he is so pro-windows.

When I read he was going to do some web stuff I was wondering if he would use a windows server. I admit I don't keep up on what MS offers in the server side but it seems linux + apache is still a better choice.

[pchristensen]

Unless you're already extremely proficient on [your tools] but would take a lot of time and tweaking to learn the ins and outs of [other supposedly better tools].

[wanorris]

> I read this Jeff's blog as some is interesting, but I always laugh at how he is so pro-windows.

On the plus side, he's not pro-Windows in the sense of being an evangelist or anti-something else. He's been working for a consulting business up until now, and there's great money in .Net consultancy, just like there is with Java. It's just a very different world from the LAMP-style web community.

> I admit I don't keep up on what MS offers in the server side but it seems linux + apache is still a better choice.

People publish working websites all the time on Java+whatever and on .Net+Windows, and Microsoft is working to make Windows/IIS a workable platform for PHP. I would personally recommend a LAMP-style stack for someone trying to decide what web technology stack to learn, but for someone who already knows a different stack, it may not be worth the trouble unless you need immense scale.