[OSGeo-Discuss] Windows verse Linux

[Gary Watry]

Hi everyone

I need advice from the experts

I am running Windows Server 2003 with Apache and Mapserver.
I currently have 9 sites running Mapserver 

The Center wants to move to Linux from SGI

I want to run

Mapserver with dbox (Steve, dbox run on Linux?)
Mapserver as WMS feed to MapBuilder.

On the database side is it 
1. PostGIS or PostgreSQL 
2. PostGIS and PostgreSQL (think I have to run PostGIS as front to
PostgreSQL).

Question: 
What do I gain by going to Linux?
What do I gain by staying in a Windows Environment?

Any thoughts appreciated!

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