[antiRepublicrat]

Even Windows Server does much better at load-balancing and other tasks in production environments.

I have to disagree with that. I've used Windows NLB in production, and it sucked badly. Anyone doing large-scale NLB should be doing hardware NLB in the first place.

[George W. Bush]

I've used Windows NLB in production, and it sucked badly.

I didn't suggest it was better than Linux. But it has its uses in some shops.