I would never turn to Linux on my desktop but as a Internet webserver I find it much more suitable than IIS: - you have to weight in all factors and one of the facts is that a lot of people simply put HATE Microsoft, therefore making their products a target for hacking. - cost. You can get a dedicated RAQ server ( with Redhat Linux ) for under $100 a month where a Windows box costs at least three times that much. Actually I found myself in that position a couple of months ago and switched from my $450/month Windows 2000 server to a RAQ4. - performance. Sure MS has won a lot of performance tests with C++-based ISAPI modules, however for us deadly people who uses simple ASP script etc PHP on a Linux box is a lot faster and more scalable. - Also to install IIS you need IE 5.x??? The problem with IIS is that it's so big ( and dependent on so many DLL:s here and there ) that now MS simply can't handle it. I mean how can one else explain how the $DATA security issue ( or whatever i was called ) last fall got through( a MS developer used it for debugging but it slipped through into the release code ) - and gave users access to all the ASP sourcecode. I really think MS should leave the desktop/server integration track and develop a prompt based server - with the option to load a GUI if one would like so. Just check free memory after a clean Win 2000 installation and laugh... Don't get me wrong - I love ASP - for example I have written the banner rotating script used here at CodeGuru ( download at http://www.aspcode.net ) and my site ironically enough is about ASP - but runs on a Linux machibe with PHP...