I went to the report that the article mentions. Oddly enough, I found no mention whatsoever of any Linux/390 results, just Windows. I'm now wondering just how this is supposed to show anything about what the article says it does. I suppose I could write it off as just another clueless reporter, but still....
MICROSOFT BENCHMARKS STEP UP LINUX ASSAULT ======================================================================== Posted September 05, 2003 4:37 AM Pacific Time Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on Intel Corp. systems in terms of performance for the money. Microsoft ran the benchmark tests in response to what it believes were IBM's unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of running Linux on its mainframe hardware, according to Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy Martin Taylor. "IBM was making some claims and customers were trying to figure some things out and didn't have the facts in front of them," he said. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=43D0DE:1F5EAC5 Mark Post
