[KwasiOwusu]

"At least do some research first, Amazon runs Linux/Apache"

Never said Amazon run on Windows.
Read that post again, will you?
I said bn.com runs on Windows.
Is this the best you can do? Bring in quotes that don't exist?

"NASDAQ is now IIS6, but look at that poor uptime. ....
London: You want to talk about horrible downtime! "

You guys keep bringing that rubbish from the European Netcraft funnies up.
Like I said before, its irrelevant.
I use the Nasdaq site all the time.
I don't really remember the last time Nasdaq was actually down.
In fact Nasdaq has been growing from strength to strength on the back of Windows servers. That is what matters.
Same with the London Stock Exchange (I used to live in London and have traded British stocks for over 10 years)

"But the big daddy of exchanges, the NYSE, "

Operative word here is big daddy which should read granddaddy.
Practically all the hot, dynamic, cutting edge tech companies are on the Nasdaq.
In fact the Dow Industrial Index was forced to add in Nasdaq stocks like Microsoft and Intel into the Dow 30 just to remain relevant.
Even Google is on Nasdaq.
Guess which stock exchange represents the future.

[antiRepublicrat]

Never said Amazon run on Windows. Read that post again, will you?

I did. Understand now.

You guys keep bringing that rubbish from the European Netcraft funnies up. Like I said before, its irrelevant.

How is it irrelevant. Even when you have multiple load-balanced, redundant servers, more down time still means more admin time, which means higher TCO.

Even Google is on Nasdaq.

And Google, possibly the most-visited site in the world, runs one of the biggest Linux installations in the world. The brains behind this credit their success partially to being able to tinker under the hood of Linux to be able to do exactly what they need to. Obviously, Windows therefore wouldn't have worked.