OSS Web Stacks Outperformed by .Net?

Gimble writes "eWeek has an article up that looks at the performance of portals using open source stacks and comparing them to their MS equivalents. The article's conclusion is that .Net outperforms the open source stacks, mainly because of its tighter integration, but also notes that running the open source stacks on Windows (WAMP) delivered strong performance." From the article: "Based on our forays into user forums for many top open-source enterprise applications, there are many IT managers attempting to run open-source products on Windows servers--attracted, no doubt, to the benefits and efficiencies of using open source without having to become Linux administrators. The results of our WAMP stack tests indicate that these folks might be on to something."

I'm going to have to use the /. rule of thumb

[Clockwurk]

If Linux wins, its a fact.

If M$ wins, its fud and was paid for.

If apple wins, its because of Steve Jobs.

If OS/2 wins, we're trapped in a parallel universe.

Hits per second ~20 ??

[Yiliar]

I am amazed that they got Windows 2003 to run on a wrist watch!

Running a web server over an RF port from the wrist watch to a phone scewed the results a bit, but its the only communication mode they had.

The smartphone was the only client they had handy to test with, since the test was carried out on a long flight.

Amazing stuff!

Girly man coder

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're getting your ass kicked by .net, you are one girly man coder.

Holy Throughput!

[blazerw11]

I'm wondering if the high throughput numbers for the .Net stack were caused by it deliving huge binary files to the client. Ya know, 17MB Active X controls. Anyway, I didn't randomly come up with this conclusion, the article didn't mention the transactions per second for .Net. So, I conclude from ALL of the data that it did one transaction of 17MB*.

*No math was done to come up with the 17MB figure.
Also, no animals were harmed during the writing of this comment.

Re:Benchmarking Strategy Doesn't Matter Here

[ThinkFr33ly]

I agree. In fact, I'm a fan of a lot of Microsoft stuff. (*ducks*) I've developed systems that were blazing fast and were written with .NET.

I'm just saying that, in this case, the benchmark is completely useless. It would be like conducting a drug trial to determine if a particular drug works, but letting the participants also take any other drugs they want in addition to smoking some crack on the weekends.

Re:Nice thing about OSS

[ZachPruckowski]

I also use a WIMP setup

Someone needs to be fired in the marketing department...

Re:MindCraft would be the "worst" so far.

[ArsonSmith]

Then have a set of freash CS degree "C" grade graduates do it as well. You know to get real worled results.

Re:ASP.Net is pretty nice...

[Atzanteol]

as well as maintaining a set of global class libraries that align with business processes

Who let the marketing guy in here?