[WayneDB]

That's great except the only thing you've proven here is your own ignorance. Shall I go on?

You're spouting off about ancient history...and that somehow translates to Windows is (currently) "clumsy" on the network? Gee, I wonder why it only takes me 10 minutes flat to setup a headless ASP.Net server on EC2? And I can do that even with the GUI version of Windows because there's this little thing called RDP - maybe you've heard of it.

Oh and ASP.Net also runs on Linux. It didn't a few years ago though, so maybe it won't work for you since apparently you are living in the past.

[mixmastamyk]

(Forgot to mention drive letters, unc paths don't work on the console.)

rdp is no substitute for real deployment tools. That you've spent years working around the issues and recently got headless working seven months ago is not impressive. Not when its been mature elsewhere for decades, for free. Nor is your defensive tone.

The original point I made was that there are impediments to using Windows and many still exist whether you believe them or not. If they didn't Windows Server wouldn't be moving closer to the Unix model with every release.