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I'm sure a few here have run across Stack Overflow.

edit: http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture

The article confirms:

It's hard to separate out the Microsoft stack and the scale up approach because for licensing reasons they tend to go together. If you find yourself in the position of transitioning from scale up to scale out by adding dozens of cores, MS licensing will bite you.

You know what else is crazy? If you find yourself in the position of scaling your dev team because your business is successful, salaries will bite you. If you thought MS licensing was expensive, try hiring senior developers! :)

MySpace had (has?) an MS stack, and it was called successful at one point.

The point is not that no successful startups have been built on a Microsoft stack. But for every one that has, ten have been built on GNU/Linux.

The Azure credits can be used to run 'GNU/Linux'. A full one fifth of workloads on Azure run Linux.

Current example - Xero.