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To: E_K_S who wrote (10816)	8/10/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 64865

Eric, I ran Solaris X86 about 4-5 years ago. I found it quite favorable compared to NT (no faster, no slower - really felt about the same running X11) and found it very close to a Sparc environment. (e.g. code I wrote ran without change on both platforms.) Other people commented to me that they felt Linux ran much faster, but I felt that Solaris was fast enough for my purposes, and had the advantage of cross-compatability I'm not sure just how you are going to compare the two side-by-side. They are different beasts with not much in the way of common software. Perhaps a Netscape server would be a decent test, or Netscape browser for the UI side of things. I think it's more a matter of what you use them for. Solaris is definately a better choice if what you are doing is hands-off, automatically-scheduled batch processing kinda stuff, going out to the net, doing this, doing that on it's own. NT stinks for that sort of thing, as there isn't much support unless you write your own software. Heck, I'd run one just to be able to route my mail through it and run Procmail and Spam Bouncer! :) (Which I currently run on a shell account that I pay a monthly fee for.)

To: E_K_S who wrote (10816)	8/11/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Chung Yang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Solaris is better. There were some benchmarks done in the past. Solaris can handle much higher bandwidth (hits/min) than NT. The number I saw was at peak it was about 2.5 times higher capacity, but on the average it was 40% more efficient .. for the same type of machine. But it is hard to tell because Sun has better networking software in the first place. But my guess as to why you couldn't log-in is that they underestimate the number of people intersted in participating in this program. - Chung >> Hi Jon - Glad to know that I was not the only person experiencing the problem. I am anxious to test the two systems (NT vs Solaris) side by side to see if one is more efficient. I still like SUNW long term but if they are to make it to the next level, they must show that they have a low end product that can compete with NT. This will prove to me that there is an upgrade path (using SOLARIS) for the small and mid-size business. If not, SUNW must look at more cross-platform promotions with pre-installed Solaris installations and working e-commerce applications that a small business can purchase installed and working. COMPQ or Dell would be a good choice. I will post my findings of my test once I have every <<<