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go with UNIX.
I think some administrators that come from a Windows background are hesitant to switch to a UNIX variant for fear of the unknown. In the environments I have managed, the UNIX hosts outperformed the Windows servers in one large way - the need for reboots if something is wrong.
It is fairly rare to have much downtime on a well tuned Solaris 10 machine. Reboots are only needed when major configuration changes are made, and they rarely shut down on their own. WIth Windows on the other hand, something small goes wrong and you could be pinging a blue screen for hours until you log in and find that Windows didn't like something and bs'd. I've only seen one Solaris master server become unresponsive, and that is due to a kernel panic stemming from a patch that was made by one of the SA's.
Windows 2k8 may be different though, and I'm not going to knock 2k8 until I try it, which may be never for a master server.
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