On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of > Directors, of course): > > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html > > Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as > a File Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server. > > I'm sure I could dig up opposing reviews. Anyone know of any? >
Peter- 1) The white-paper was commissioned by MS. It's right there in the paper. That's the most telling fact in the whole paper. 2) http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml has a list of critiques of the proposal, including the suggestion that they deliberately used a kernel (2.2.2) with known networking problems. They also have a list of links with research you can use to counter theirs, from several respected and independent news sources. 3) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/14/0042212 is /.'s thread on this- lots of interesting observations and criticisms. Make sure you set "Highest Scores First"- otherwise you will have to search forever to find the pertinent ones. Good luck- I'd strongly suggest sending out at least the lwn.net link to counter the FUD. -Luis ####################################################################### "They call the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell:" "There's no place like home... There's no place like home... There's no place like home." -Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon -Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz #######################################################################
