on 6/7/00 7:19 PM, Luke McNeilage at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The true issue here is IP. Windows NT is not IP, neither is NetWare (I
> assume this by the results.)
Of course it is, but the bonehead IT 'specialists' that were making
decisions in that environment actually firmly believed that NT would blows
ASIP (or Linux) out of the waters), until the results came in.
Those folks wouldn't even know what 'IP' is.
> That makes the rest of this test a bit incredulous.
The 'benchmark' was not made to prove some technological agenda, but rather
to demonstrate to a bunch of morons that they were wrong.
Fact still was that Linux was a bit slower than the ASIP installation we
were using, but, as previously pointed out, that was an issue of hardware
differences. ASIP ran on a G3 at the time, Linux on an AMD K6/233.
> But the point is the difference in price.
Hnestly, this seems to be a permanent mantra, but by the time you put
together a serious workstations to compete, performance-wise with a lowest
end G4, you'd have spent the same $1500 - more if you buy them from a
genuine vendor.
Harry
