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    I am not talking about overall market share.I'm talking about properly large websites. Think Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google. Commented Nov 8, 2010 at 18:36
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    If you want the proof Microsoft technologies scale, just check hotmail.com, windowslive.com, office.com, bing.com, microsoft.com. Most of them are even in the TOP 25 of Alexa in term of traffic. Commented Nov 8, 2010 at 18:43
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    @Pierre: See my answer, I don't think it's about ability to scale, I think it's about raw cost. Microsoft owns all those sites, they don't have to pay licensing fees. ;) Commented Nov 8, 2010 at 18:46
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    @JoshK: his question starts with "Off the top of my head, I can think of a handful of large sites which prove that .NET and SQL can actually scale:" Commented Nov 8, 2010 at 18:54
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    In terms of adoption, the "properly large" websites are inherently not representative (with the obvious exception of Stackoverflow (-:) - firstly they seldom set out to be huge and secondly once you get to that scale you almost start creating your own platform if you haven't already (facebook have had to, google had already). Commented Nov 8, 2010 at 19:46