Hi,
did you read the article The Best OS for Web serving published on BYTE #3
(March 1998)?
I was very disappointed about it!
I don't think that what the author did is a serious comparison and more than
this, the article was full of mistake!
First of all the platform examined were very different in terms of memory,
number of CPU and architecture.
Then, there was no real test considering number of hits or concurrent users
supported by each machine.
Regarding Linux I was surprised about how many error you were able to put in
such few lines....
as you all know:
- Linux is NOT shareware: it is FREEWARE
- Linux supports SMP since ages!
- Linux runs on 64-bit platform very well!
- As Digital Unix, Linux fully supports (and they are FREE!):Radius
autentication server, IMAP server, IRC server, LDAP server and more...
- Netscape FastTrack server is NOT the only option: there is also Apache that
(more than being the most apreciated web server on the Internet) together
with
mod_perl or PHP allows to develop amazing web application with full access to
the most famous RDBMS. (SSL is easy also with Apache: Stronghold or
Apache_ssl)
- OpenLinux is NOT the only commercial Linux solution: there is also RedHat and
Suse which are really great product
- PAM is available also on Linux!
Many mistake were also present is the Solaris part... not to mention that
the author forgot to say that every College student can easly crash a web
server running on an NT box (even if it has SP4).
I'm really wondering if who wrote the article has a true knowledge of Unix.
I think that we (Linux users) should make them hear our voice writing
hundreds of complaining e-mails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...
regards,
Marco
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