Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[kirblam at comcast.net (kirblam at comcast.net)]

My company is making some of its first moves into looking at Linux capabilities for web applications. We're a 95%+ Microsoft shop (my personal experience is more broad, stop throwing things...) 

Anyway, my boss is pulling for a Red Hat license to get started. I'm not sure what you really get with RH beside support that would make it better/worse than other distros. I'm aware of the issues of excessive packages that used to be trademark of previous RH versions.

For app development, you can assume we'll be experimenting with tomcat, eclipse, php, maybe mono. It's probably a given we'll run some version of apache.

Your feedback is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
jk