There was a major sporting event carried out last week between the USA and the Soviet Union. As it was very, very tough the scores were designed to be very low. The final score was the USA: 1; Soviet Union: 0. Picking up a Soviet paper one read a very brief account of the sporting event only to find the final score at the end of the article. It went something like this: "The USA scored only one point, while the Soviet Union finished in second place." Get my point......? Bob BTW, this is from an old joke so please read it as I apply it! :-) Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
ZDNet has compared Linux and NT as fileserver and webserver on identical machines.
<A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html"><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html</A">http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html</A</A>>
Thanks for pointing to this article.
"Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with IIS, hands down. SuSE, the least effective Linux, is 16 percent faster than IIS, and Caldera, the leader, is 50 percent faster. "
Hm, "SusE, the least effective Linux"???
This is a nice number playing game. It is still strange to see such different results. But without a detailed configuration report, this could be everything.
"...over the Linuxes. Once the load moves to 12 clients, all the Linux platforms take commanding leads over NT. At 32 clients, SuSE, the weakest Linux, has more than double NT's throughput, and Red Hat, the leader, ^^^^^^ extends its lead to almost 250 percent of NT's performance." ^^^
Hmm, why does he compare 'double' (2) with '250'? Psychological effect? This article is a nice piece of ZD marketing. IMHO they are slightly biased...
Bye, LenZ
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