Advantages/Disadvantages of installing Oracle RAC on Windows 2003 VS Linux

Hello Guys,
I am not very good with linux, have to create a Oracle RAC environment using dataabse 10g.
I just need to know the advantages/disadvantages of configuring RAC on windows and on linux operating system.
Please help me with this. Please also specify what is the best available windows and linux version to configure RAC.
Regards,
Imran

Go with th eOS you have the skills in, if you have onsite expertise in windows then it makes no sense to use Linux because some guy on the internet says its better. Windows can be a highly available server OS when is managed by professional well quallified adminstrators.
Personally I would use linux because I am more familiar with the OS than windows. I also find oracle makes more sense on a *NIX type platform but there are shops that run oracle on windows with the required high availability.

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