Anyone trying to convince their clients/management that the time has
come to switch to Linux on the server may want to wave the latest
online copy of ZDnet's SmartReseller magazine in their faces. (Can
you "wave" a digital magazine around? Metaphorically, anyway...)
In a series of articles entitled, "Linux Up Close: Time To Switch",
you can find some good hard numbers, such as:
WebBench measures the performance of Web servers in responses
per second. We looked at how the Linux platforms, armed with
slightly different versions of Apache, would do against NT with
Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0.
The answer: Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with IIS, hands down.
SuSE, the least effective Linux, is 16 percent faster than IIS,
and Caldera, the leader, is 50 percent faster.
And...
NetBench 5.01 shows how well a network operating system does at
the mundane task of file serving, by measuring Wintel file
input/output. Natively, Linux doesn't work with DOS/Windows
files, but Samba, an open-source Server Message Block (SMB)
client and server that ships with all commercial Linuxes,
provides that capacity. And how!
You might think that Linux would operate at a disadvantage here,
but Linux kicks NT's butt. Only at the lightest loads does NT
hold any advantage over the Linuxes. Once the load moves to 12
clients, all the Linux platforms take commanding leads over NT.
At 32 clients, SuSE, the weakest Linux, has more than double
NT's throughput, and Red Hat, the leader, extends its lead to
almost 250 percent of NT's performance.
Quite remarkable, really, how fast the sympathies of the mainstream
trade press have swung in favour of Linux -- even three months ago it
was easy to find plenty of articles proclaiming Linux's supposed
inadequacies as an enterprise OS... not now.
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
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