Brian Mathis wrote:
> As someone who's been doing specifically this type of thing for about 3
> years now (HA Web Servers), with both UNIX and NT setups, I can tell you
> that it's not a matter of "if", but "how many". From personal experience,
> you need about 2.5 NT servers to handle the same load that 1 midrange (2
> CPU) Sun server can handle (running Netscape or iPlanet server). Running
> Apache is a different story (it's slower compared to NS). All large sites
> are using some sort of load balancing, which makes the specs of each
> specific machine irrelevant.
>
> MS gains no advantage by speeding things up either, because PHBs will
> almost always buy an MS product, simply out of reflex.
As our fathers' said, "No one was fired for buying IBM."
Steve
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