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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: adamnelson who wrote (38909)	3/2/2000 3:08:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

Adam - your knowledge about computers needs some updating: 1) The fastest Linux computer in commercial duty in the world is MUCH faster than any Windows based computer. 2) You assume, that scalability is only how advanced a computer architecture, that can be exploited. If you want to measure scalability, please divide the speed of the fastest computer with the speed of the slowest computer running the same OS. It gets a scalability factor of approx. 16,000. Windows 2000 probably gets 50 or 100. If you talk about realistic computers, it probably gets a scalability factor 15, whereas Linux still is 16,000. 3) Today, Linux, Windows and other systems are comparable in speeds on a single computer. Fast systems are made using several processors with each their own harddisk and memory. If you want to scale that, Linux is far much cheaper than any other OS. It's really cheap to make 64 Athlon computers do a beowulf cluster! And Linux is designed in a way, that makes beowolf clusters and alike very easy to configure. A 15-year old kid can do that today. 4) Linux web service providers typically don't have more software installed that necessary in order to prevent security holes. That's why a Linux web server can be hosted on a 20MB harddisk(!) How do you remove the Windows Explorer from a Windows server, if it has a security hole? You don't. That's why Windows servers are left alone with hackers if a security flaw is found, whereas Linux servers (or FreeBSD servers) often are fixed quickly.