Keithsha,
I am soo amazed how you can so openly spew such utter lies and crap. Save yourself some MAJOR red-face!!
As for Border Manager and fake benchmarks, it doesn't even have basic Proxy performance features such as load-balanced cache, reverse proxy or host, server proxy or FTP cache
Lets help your poor little brain out a bit...
Current BorderManager main features...
- Centralized Network Administration
- NDS with Full LDAP Capabilities
- User-Level Access Control (Not Just IP-Level) Services
- Circuit Gateway Services
- Application Proxy Services
- Packet Filtering Services
- Virtual Private Network Services
- Network Address Translation Services
- Advanced Proxy Cache Services
- Full Routing and Remote Access Services
- CyberPatrol* URL Content Filtering
- Netscape Navigator*
A few quotes from those that have seen the two and have looked at the MSFT web site (the perfect example of how little MSFT products are scalable)...
According to Norvin Leach in his PC Week article, "Web Woes: Microsoft.com's poor performance," dated June 30, 1997, "The sluggish performance of Microsoft Corp.'s Web site and a recent hacker-driven crash of the site points to an ongoing series of challenges the site and the Microsoft technology behind is facing Microsoft attributes the problems partly to skyrocketing usage, which officials are estimating at 88 million hits per day." Perhaps Microsoft should talk to Novell. Novell BorderManager is rated at 290 million hits per day using an Intel Pentium! In the June 23 issue of InformationWeek, James Gaskin says: "...BorderManager promises dramatic improvements in Net access . . . [al]though the Proxy Cache Server is just one component of BorderManager, it may help quiet all those users demanding faster computers to improve their Web access." BorderManager uses sohisticated software techniques to do the job it isn't dependent
solely on the performance of the underlying processor.
...
Leach's June 30 PC Week article continues: "...for users [Microsoft's]
poor [website] performance ...reflects on the underlying Microsoft technology, namely IIS..."
...
According to Stan Gibson's May 26th column in PC Week, (and the reader
responses on June 16) Microsoft doesn't have what it takes to support
scalable mission-critical enterprise systems.
novell.com
From a recent announcement of SkyCache and Novell...
SkyCache and Novell Announce Certification of Internet Caching
Solution for ISPs, Enterprises and Web-Enabled Businesses
Novell's BorderManager FastCache Now SkyCache Certified
...
Leveraging the performance strengths of NetWare® 5, BorderManager FastCache can handle over 100,000 simultaneous persistent connections and can offload as much as 75% of the Web traffic on an Internet connection. BorderManager FastCache provides a strong performance foundation for firewalls already installed in a network environment and can be easily integrated in any NetWare, NT, UNIX or heterogeneous network.
SkyCache uses satellite broadcast technology to constantly load the most often requested Internet and Web pages directly into customer-side ICP-compliant caches. In addition, SkyCache uses reporting statistics from customers to build a large cache community for the reactive caching component of the service.
novell.com
And this is only the current BorderMananger. BorderManager version 3 will be release by Q1 of next year and this product goes even another 10 steps further than anything MSFT could even consider.
The other big fact is that unlike MSFT proxy cache technology had has developed its own propriatary CARP caching, NOVL has used the industry accepted ICP.
And of course your typical MSFT FUD which puts down all the statistics and performance tests that show Novell's BorderManager products are not only faster than either MSFT Proxy Servers or any of the other competitors, but it leaves them in the dust. MSFT was rated at 500 hits per second where BorderManager was over 4,000 hits per second.
NO CONTEST LITTLE BUDDY! Go tell your bosses to sell these solutions to the mom and pop operations because at least the MSFT servers can keep up with these 5-10 person operations.
How does Mr. Gates let you on the boards making a fool out of MSFT. You are the best thing that has happened to companies like NOVL because you let these companies counter you with truth and it is not even hard to counter-point you!
Toy |
