[BigSkyFreeper]

No its not, every server reboot means money spent on administration.

Actually the line of discussion is server load, not whether you need to buy more servers because you spend more money rebooting the one you have.

[N3WBI3]

Given that Amazon handels a far higher volume of transactions per second than Dells website There is nothing to argue when it come to which server does better when it comes to load.

Now I applaud dell they are eating their own dog food, they sell mainly windows server so to runn *nix would be as embarassing as well, when MS was caught using the tcp/ip stack from BSD. Windows can be made to be a decent server, as I have said we run it as our front end but all the horse paower in the back is either a Mainframe or Unix both of which scale batter and have better uptime..