Stats are one of my fav little hobbies, primarily demolishing them and mocking the various interpretations of them. That graph is totally meaningless as it offers no benchmarks, no details and could just as easily be as accurate as a 'survey' in a women's magazine (ie totally fabricated).
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 1:28 AM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [NF] M$ is pushing ahead for performance Stephen, Without wanting to sound "anti M$" I do think that this type of comparison is always weighted towards the result that the "constructor" desires. My daughter is a DB Architect and her boyfriend a "dev" programmer working under contract for SKY TV in Scotland. They are implementing a new account and CRM portal for SKY and have been involved in the choice of portal hardware/software i.e Linux, Windows, Websphere, IIS etc etc. In a moment of weakness during their visit before Christmas we got into a really "geek" talk/discussion about the final choices for the project. Bearing in mind that personally I only get involved with desktop apps in both VFP and .NET, lots of the techie bits left me for cold but their conclusion was that the Websphere platform on Linux comfortably out performed the Microsoft equivalent by a factor of 2:1 in terms of TPS volume on all their tests. Hence their choice of Websphere. The boyfriend is a lead developer, Microsoft fan, and really knows his stuff so I do take his comments as being a realistic comparison of the two architectures. In view of the fact that he has over 200 devs working under him and some 10 years of portal development experience I guess his credentials are second to none - he doesn't get paid nearly $1500 per day for being a "duffer" by anyone. I guess as a summary, it goes to show the old axiom "there are lies, damned lies and statistics" can be used in most environments. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: 13 January 2009 14:15 To: ProFox Email List Subject: [NF] M$ is pushing ahead for performance Some on this list have their mind set and would never consider that M$ could ever do anything good, this graphic is not for you. for those of you with your head out of your rump <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.chart%28en-us,MSDN.10 %29.jpg> this chart presents performance results on various platforms. That graph is from this page giving you access to download the app as well as the source code. for it. this is what you can get.: # NET StockTrader 2.03 composite Web application and middle tier services. # New modes for Advanced Web Service (WS-*) message-level security and interoperability with a variety of non-Microsoft platforms via the SOA architecture. # Configuration Service 2.03 with technical guides and samples. # Capacity planning tool for running multi-agent benchmarks against the .NET StockTrader services. # WSTest 1.5 Web services benchmark. Includes .NET/WCF, IBM WebSphere 6.1, Oracle Application Server 10G (OC4J) and Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 implementations. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
