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>>Craig, I come from a Unix background. Most of the web is made up of Unix/Linux OSes running Apache Server.
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>Could be, but if you look at shopping sites, most are running IIS.

According to:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/requested.html

Only about 11 of the top 50 sites are running Windows. Now, those statistics are sort of bogus anyway (and not just for shopping sites), because even if a certain URL is utilizing a given OS, that doesn't mean all of their web processing uses that OS. Sites could easily be offloading processing to all kinds of back-end horsepower...

I was impressed to see that eBay uses IIS on Windows...I wonder if all of their processing is done on Windows machines? Impressive if that is the case!

JoeK