There are two types of people in the world – the first type likes to play it safe and go where the rest of the herd goes, while the second type likes to take chances and discover things for itself, thereby standing out from the herd. When applied to the context of preference of operating systems and servers, the first category of people are those who play it safe by blindly going for Windows, while the second category of people like treading the less trodden path, taking their chances with various open source software options and discovering many other viable alternative in the process. Don't get me wrong, though! I have no grudges, whatsoever, against Windows, and I think it works just fine – otherwise it wouldn't be so popular in the first place! So what's this vs Windows server contention all about? Spare a glance towards the following segment, would you?
