Comment The sponsor wasted its money. (Score 1) 723
There seem to be several MCSE or comparable
qualified persion in the crew that made that test.
The tuning steps they took were not that obvious
than the average manager would think.
(Having such a person hired is indeed costly.)
On the other hand their report suggested that
the linux part was done without any knowledge
of the system. Having to read the HOWTOs dosnt
proove of much expirience. If they had hired
a Linux professional as well then the situation
were much more balanced.
If i call the *desktop* hotline of MS then i
will get a info compareable to a calling at RH.
But if i pay for premium support (and i will do
this if i have to do business of that server size)
then will get lots more, sure.
I browsed the other slashdot postings and found
some of them very interesting in technical aspects.
I am sure lots of that info will go into an
enterprise-setup-HOWTO or similar, some other
things will merge into applications or kernel.
This already works against that (pretended)
non-knowledge of the testers and benefits
everyone in the linux community as well.
Just one is clear to me, this sort of FUD
approach can never ever happen again. The
sponsor has caused a counter movement with
lots more power behind it. I am prettey sure,
the shootout will and has to be repeated at
honest conditions. And the winner is ... ?
Well i dont know totally for sure. But the
price Linux has to win is a price of honour.
Get the machines, get some expirienced system
administrators and choose a place to happen.
Make it in a public environment and the result
will proove the performance, the reliability
and the integrity of each candidate.
Bye AlexS.
PS: Anyone that knows what exact effect of the
different stripe size on the RAID0 device
can be? Is it true that Linux is currently
limited in that area? Or is it another FUD?
qualified persion in the crew that made that test.
The tuning steps they took were not that obvious
than the average manager would think.
(Having such a person hired is indeed costly.)
On the other hand their report suggested that
the linux part was done without any knowledge
of the system. Having to read the HOWTOs dosnt
proove of much expirience. If they had hired
a Linux professional as well then the situation
were much more balanced.
If i call the *desktop* hotline of MS then i
will get a info compareable to a calling at RH.
But if i pay for premium support (and i will do
this if i have to do business of that server size)
then will get lots more, sure.
I browsed the other slashdot postings and found
some of them very interesting in technical aspects.
I am sure lots of that info will go into an
enterprise-setup-HOWTO or similar, some other
things will merge into applications or kernel.
This already works against that (pretended)
non-knowledge of the testers and benefits
everyone in the linux community as well.
Just one is clear to me, this sort of FUD
approach can never ever happen again. The
sponsor has caused a counter movement with
lots more power behind it. I am prettey sure,
the shootout will and has to be repeated at
honest conditions. And the winner is
Well i dont know totally for sure. But the
price Linux has to win is a price of honour.
Get the machines, get some expirienced system
administrators and choose a place to happen.
Make it in a public environment and the result
will proove the performance, the reliability
and the integrity of each candidate.
Bye AlexS.
PS: Anyone that knows what exact effect of the
different stripe size on the RAID0 device
can be? Is it true that Linux is currently
limited in that area? Or is it another FUD?
