Re: NT vs Linux as web server
The March 22 issue of Smart Reseller (www.smartreseller.com) compared NT and Linux
running Samba and it had Linux/Samba way ahead. So I was very surprized to see the
test by Mindcraft.
Try the following:
www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/infopack/0,5483,387506,00.html
There are two links on that page -- one for Samba, one for Apache. In both articles,
NT fails in the 10 to 12 user area.
Good luck!
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Luis Villa wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of
> > Directors, of course):
> >
> > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
> >
> > Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as
> > a File Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server.
> >
> > I'm sure I could dig up opposing reviews. Anyone know of any?
> >
>
> Peter-
>
> 1) The white-paper was commissioned by MS. It's right there in the
> paper. That's the most telling fact in the whole paper.
>
> 2) http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml has a list of
> critiques of the proposal, including the suggestion that they deliberately
> used a kernel (2.2.2) with known networking problems. They also have a
> list of links with research you can use to counter theirs, from several
> respected and independent news sources.
>
> 3) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/14/0042212 is /.'s thread on
> this- lots of interesting observations and criticisms. Make sure you set
> "Highest Scores First"- otherwise you will have to search forever to find
> the pertinent ones.
>
> Good luck- I'd strongly suggest sending out at least the lwn.net link to
> counter the FUD.
> -Luis
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