KC, problem is Eric drnak the kool-aid, and got a BIG dose.
Eric, when you discuss a microsoft product such as .net, you have to remember that you end up with the whole ball of microslop wax. You get the windows, and .net runs mostly on the sql server, so there ya go. You also eat up all that overhead making a nice gui display for the console, and the overhead that is windows running, even at idle. Critical system resources (ram and processor cycles) are wasted doing all the things you don't need to run a server. More importantly, from a security standpoint, literally thousands of ports are open on the TCP/IP that don't need to be, and they answer...
you like .net, that's fine. Enjoy it. Do something with it, and then come back and show us how smart you are. We aren't in the business of theoreticals, were are in the business of high volume porn serving...
Heck, if your are right, then you have a big jump on the rest of us and you will be rich!
Alex