Upon reading this, my first thought was, "I can't believe I debated this guy up to post 209 on this thread. What a waste of my time and jimrob's bandwidth."
If I tried my best, I couldn't come up with a stupider comment.
Good night, troll...
You have a problem with plain facts, don't you? My claims of expensive, unstable, unsecure and high-maintenance can be backed up by anyone who has had to admin MS systems. Unstable? Look at the low uptimes from Netcraft and the constant crashes admins have to deal with. Unsecure? A while ago, even Gartner suggested not buying MS because of the security issues. Personally, I'd only use IIS on an intranet site locked behind a firewall. I'd never expose myself to the internet with such an exploitable system.