Re:Why Sun? (Score 1)

I deal with these issues pretty frequently and I agree totaly with you. Development costs are much higher than server costs in most cases. I am developing a site right now that will cost about $150,000 to design, code, test and launch. The hardware will initially consist of Linux with Apache, PHP, and Mysql running on a $2500 machine. Later it may need a few machines, a load balancer and an Oracle database on a $5000 machine. The hardware cost will never get anywhere close to the software cost though.