Forwarded message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 2 15:05:25 1998 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:57:52 -0800 (PST) From: Bevan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Javilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [svlug] WC:>: UNIX v NT - report (fwd) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Rcpt-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 3155f2075f3f55f8df161fe20b712aa9 On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Javilk wrote: > >http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,29416,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.f > > Unix trounces > Windows NT in testing better url: http://www.dhbrown.com/cfeprise/page_int.cfm?OBJECTID=129&Method=VIEW My problems with this particular benchmark: 1. It's way too late in the game for benchmarks to ignore linux. It's already shown itself as a prime candidate for the #1 Unix of the future. 2. Judgements on vague topics of unclear import by possibly very small number of people. The benchmark appears to have been authored by PHB's: to assess a technical system without technical knowledge in hand is pointless. Consider the "serviceability" of linux versus another OS. Depending on the level of service required, and one's familiarity with the mailing lists and newsgroups (and CLI), linux could score anywhere at all on the scale. 3. Bias not only possible but proven: on their web page: They take a penalty if the function requires a separately priced option, and suffer a greater penalty if the function is not available directly from the operating system's supplier (i.e., if it requires involvement of a third-party supplier). NT expects far more third-party drivers and such than other OSes because it's Microsoft - if a company releases hardware without an M$ driver, nobody will buy it. Or so M$ has convinced them at least. M$ certainly should take crap for this, but not in the form of a skewed benchmark - that leads one to doubt the benchmark as a whole, the opposite of doubting M$ as was their apparent intention. When you come across a benchmark that includes linux, and concretely describes its testing factors showing them to be absolute and fair, THEN I'll be interested, and it will be something to show the world. This benchmark is just dhbrown sticking their tongue out at M$, and then turning and running away. This is amusing... $ queso www.dhbrown.com:21 206.24.6.125:21 * Windoze 95/98/NT and from "GET /": Server: Microsoft-IIS/2.0 -bevan ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
