Kristian Farren wrote:
>
> Anybody else see this article,
> http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/dailynews/042199.htm
> This seems to refute the bencmarking done by ZDNEt
> a few month ago. Who's right? or does it just show that,
> benchmarks like statistics, can be twisted to your advantage.
You're kidding, right? You would quote a Microsoft page
and expect it to hold some semblance of truth? This
from the company that records your NIC MAC into every
Word97 and Excel97 document and transmits every MS
serial number on your machine as well as your name and
company info to the big Redmond database? Remember,
last year in May (or June) when Microsoft was caught
planting letters to the editors in major US newspapers,
and magazines talking about how great their products were?
(These letters were "unsolicited letters of support,
written by average people" who just happened to be
either MS employees or MS PR Co employees.) Please!!!
Seriously, we (my networking students) ran a test using
the same hardware (Pentium 200Mhz) on a thin ethernet
LAN. They set up a Win95 fileserver and a Linux fileserver
running samba (1.9.18p10). Two different win95 clients
retrieved a 25 MB file (Star Wars trailer) from each server
(to eliminate caching). The Windows solution took 45
seconds. The Linux server took 30 seconds. So by this
(crude) test, Linux is 33% faster than Windows. Of
course, this was Win95, and not NT, but it was fun.
If Microsoft said the sky was blue, I wouldn't believe
it until I saw it. And I know for a fact the sun does
not shine in Redmond, Washington - it rains all the time.
Been there - hated it.
Not that I'm biased against them, or anything :-) I guess
I'm like any other recovering addict - I despise that to
which I fell prey to.
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