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Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> 
> It's not Linux, but...
> http://www.standishgroup.com/syst.html
> http://www.sun.com/realitycheck/standish.html
> 

Personally I am unimpressed by these sort of articles, but I note that
M$ have equivalent articles proclaiming NT vs Solaris on their web
sites. Unfortunately, the industry takes Solaris (and therefore Sun
hardware) as the UNIX benchmark, which is not the best performer at a
lot of things. 

I am not sure how you can ever do a fair comparison between NT and UNIX,
although some benchmarks are improving to the extent that they might
represent a reasonable load. This is where Linux has a good chance as it
can run on the same hardware as NT and show what a real operating system
can do.

If Linux can scale better than NT, and RedHat/Debian/whoever can get
some benchmarks into magazines against NT and other UNIX flavours, then
UNIX may still have a chance in the low-end server market.

David

ps: These opinions are my own etc.

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