-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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? Actually, you can find several opposing views directly in the white paper. First of all, the test was sponsored by MS. Try finding an independant test and check the results. ZDnet did one a while back with very different results. Here are a couple of links to check out: http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,2196106,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,396321,00.html Note that these links only really talk about file serving, not web serving. However, they do take some credibility away from the mindcraft survey. There is also a response to the study over at Linux Weekly News: http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml It appears as though Mindcraft spent quite a bit of time tuning NT, and very little time tuning Linux. So, I suppose you should start at the links I've given here. You also might want to talk to some people who use Linux every day for high volume web serving. Rob Malda at Slashdot.org would be worth talking to. His site gets a huge number of hits every day, and really performs quite well considering the amount of dynamic content. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' This message was composed in a 100% Microsoft free environment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNxTEm4dCcpBjGWoFAQF4hQP+LvVsj/m8bqr80UJnb5AyGjwq8adLnF7Z 3Y8VSAxq5dJXq2MykdrH9tF/WwO0Pt8jlYvx4uzU1aNSyXLgdIXJ5g48JrlofG+p /Kyiv8H9xlTUUkSyPCGrbnlJs1XSGV0GidOgQk1BuyLw3Na1CERlJfl5U6NRl9Al uwewmcSWWOk= =UfiY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
