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Originally Posted by nation-x
Running a high traffic network on windows servers is like hiring a bank teller to do accounting for a multi-million dollar corporation... seriously. You end up investing way more money into the infrastructure (WAY) and there isn't a windows server on the planet that can perform as well as a *nix server and that is the plain fact of the matter.
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OK we will kill all the servers and move to LAMP. Read
http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/0...ment-platform/
Its all about how fast can you develop an application and bring to market. 99% of the projects I have worked on the 20 years the answer has been develop soon and if you need a faster server we will buy a faster server.
The applications that need Google / face-book level scale is so small its not worth the hassle .