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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: jwright who wrote (29356)12/18/1999 8:18:00 AM
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I thought I remembered this from the Mindcraft/Linux/Microsoft OpenBenchmark that was held this past summer. In the open benchmark Microsoft partitioned out the Raid subsystem in order to improve their benchmark numbers when running Windows NT Clients against an NT 4.0 server. This was done to prevent contention.

It appears in the previous URL I posted PCWeek is trying to make me believe that Windows 2000 server improved NetBench performance by 100% when compared to Windows NT 4.0 server. I thought it was odd that they used Windows NT 4.0 workstations. Now I know why. If you go to this new URL you will see that 294 MBit/sec was achieved using Windows NT 4.0 Server with disk partitioning. Without disk partitioning the results were about 150 Mbit/sec. Now PCWeek reports that NT 4.0 using NT Clients can only achieve 150 MBit/Sec whereas Windows 2000 can achieve over 300 MBit/sec. Pretty creative reporting if you ask me to make it look like Windows 2000 server should be purchased because it improves performance by over 100% when compared to Windows NT 4.0 server. So should I believe this new report by PCWeek or should I believe the Mindcraft report that was published this last summer?

The other thing to note is that the numbers for Windows 95/98 clients were pretty much the same. Now you know why the Windows NT clients were used.

Anyway here is the URL

mindcraft.com
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