WinNT or GNU/Linux?

I'm setting up a database system for a small company I work for, and will be using Apache, MySQL and Perl.

I would instinctively set it up on a GNU/Linux box, but the other people in the company are more familar with WinNT so I'm not sure which way to go.

The system shouldn't come under too much strain, so the superior memory management of the Linux kernel isn't much of an issue. Can people offer me some advice - pros and cons, that sort of thing - on which way I should go?

Thanks :-)

How much do you care about needing to reboot the server on a pretty regular basis? If you don't want that kind of overhead, go with Linux.

I would say for an small in house application (and even for a large scale www application), go with either Linux or *BSD. Apache + MySQL + Perl (although, I would prefer PHP) can't be beat no matter how much money you throw at the project.

To make things even more appetizing, you do not have to go out an buy a brand new blazing fast computer to act as your server.

Brett

Also, one thing to take into consideration is the worms crawling around the net these days looking for NT/IIS boxes. I always get a chuckle when I check my logs and stuff like this, and realize it doesn't affect me:



I would go with linux.

yeah I found out yesterday what all that windows garbage was
that appeared in logs


lol