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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (30109)1/31/2000 9:43:00 AM
From: ToySoldier  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
So I dont know if anyone already reported this. The big NOS shootout says that overall W2K beat out its competitors. It stated that NetWare's weakness were Scalability and Security?!?!? Excuse me? As compared to W2K? I have to look in detail to this report.

* WINDOWS 2000 INCHES AHEAD IN BRAND NEW NOS SHOOTOUT

Network World Magazine recently compared W2K to the other available
Operating Systems in a first comparative test. Network World farmed
out the tests to Centennial Networking Labs (CNL) at North Carolina
State University in Raleigh.

Win2K did not blow everyone out of the water. CNL technical director
John Bass remarked as he stated that 'each OS had its strengths and
weaknesses'.

But the overall W2K score was 7.78 out of 10, Netware got 7.61,
6.35 for Red Hat and UnixWare came last with 6.10. The only area
where Win2K lagged behind was in the CNL file services benchmark.
There it only scored 5.6 against a whopping 9.3 for NetWare and
6.7 for Red Hat.

Tech Director Bass commented that disk drive device drivers may
have been the culprit. Not having stable and up-to-date drivers is
an issue for all makers of W2K peripherals for the coming months.

Then there was the issue of configuring Win2K's disk caching
mechanism that influenced speed significantly, but NT still lagged
behind NetWare and Red Hat. but the Red Hat score went down big time
when it turned out that Linux started slowing with more than 100
users.

The one space where NetWare was the clear leader was networking
performance, which is historically its strong point anyway. NetWare
scored 9.6 with W2K making 8.4, Red Hat 7.4 and 7.5 for UnixWare.

File and Print Management for NetWare and W2K both scored 8. Where
W2K really shone was an 8 for stability and fault tolerance, and
the other strong area was security. W2K scored a whopping 9, where
UnixWare took 8, and Linux and NetWare just got a 6. Last area
where W2K did well was scalability, where it got an 8 in a tie
with UnixWare, NetWare and Red Hat only got a 6.

Comparing all of the OS-es, Red Hat did not achieve the top score
in any of the areas. That made the testers position Linux as "an
inexpensive alternative that will give you bare-bones network
services with decent performance."

Your job is to simple determine the best platform for the app !
This review really is worth reading. Spend 30 minutes and save
months of having to figure it all out yourself. Warmly recommended.

nwfusion.com
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