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To: Milk who wrote (1598)6/26/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (2) of 2617
 
This is a fair benchmark (unlike the last one).

One thing conspicously absent is any performance/price data.
In the previous Mindcraft benchmarks of NT vs. Solaris and
NT vs. Netware, performance/price was trumpted from the headline
of each related press release. Note that this was software-only
performance/price, not including hardware. On Linux, the
value for performance/price would approach infinity.

Additionally, even if you include hardware in the price, it
is possible to build a higher-performing cluster of machines
using Linux for less than the cost of the single Big-Server
using NT. The cluster would also add to the reliability and
uptime because there is no single point of failure.

The benchmark is nice, but means little in a real-world scenario.
Your T1 would be saturated long before either of the machines
reached its peak performance.

-Mitch
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