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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Linux does some things well, but I wouldn't want to manage several thousand Users with it.

What, you would rather do that with a win machine? Linux has one big advantage over windows and it's that it enables you to use older hardware for usefull things. So an old pentium machine can still run as firewall, fileserver and webserver. Try the same with windows and you'll fail horribly. That's what i like about linux, all my old computers now still do something in my LAN.
Another example: i have a Primax scanner. Worked great in Win98. Then i switched to XP Pro and it didn't work anymore since there where no drivers available. I then found a program that worked with my scanner in linux so now i can switch to whatever distro, my scanner still works.
I'm not saying win is bad but they always try to force you to buy new stuff and i don't like that. Hell they don't even support their own stuff: my sidewinder II joystick isn't officialy supported on XP Pro.
Anyways, for servers, linux is the way to go. Then can handle a bigger load than windows on machines less powerful