James has a point, although no doubt someone will point out that memory is
cheap etc. :-)
One thing that I have noticed is that the UNIX flavours tend to have better
throughput on similar powerd boxes, eg. 60-85Mbits/s Whereas NT often peaks
out at 25-35Mbits/s. So I have tended to use UNIX when high volume traffic
is expected and NT when the site is an NT site, or only has NT experience
available.
No doubt NT will catch up, but it isn't quite there yet from the throughput
point of view.
Mark.
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Wouldn't one difference be that NT almost always takes a higher drain
on resources (memory, CPU utilization) than Unix on the same box?
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There is only one answer to which OS..
THE ONE YOU UNDERSTAND BEST!
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