[ILUG] Favourite flavours

[Andoni]

Hello,

I have to set up two new servers to act as web servers hosting Apache & Tomcat for my company.

Does anybody have ideas as to what distribution I should use and why?

I am sure this has been discussed before but I cannot find a way to search the archives of this list.

So: is there a reason I should keep away from the free versions of Linux?  Debian / Fedora because it is a commercial platform?

If I am paying for Linux is RedHat (the most popular?) definitely the best?

All suggestions welcome.

Cheers,

Andoni.