"According to the study, the three-year cost of a 100,000-hit processing unit was significantly different among the systems: Solaris: $561,520 Windows: $190,662 Linux: $74,475" (A processing unit is the number of servers that would be required to process 100,000 hits per day) http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2907876-3,00.html