Comment Re:Dragster vs. Stationwagon (Score 1) 639
I've got to disagree here.
1) I find it hard to believe that Microsoft was able to tailor their kernel (which was essentially rolled out in 4.0 beta 1, back in, oh, 1995?) for benchmarks tests that didn't even exist yet! (And if they did, we should be afraid; very afraid).
2) PC Week just got similar results in THEIR test. I'm just not enough of a conspiracy person to believe the world is against us.
3) In that PC Week test, Solaris 2.7 was found to be the strongest in several areas. Does that mean Sun has also been looking into the crystal ball to try and optimize to beat Linux?
The fact is, a number of the things that make Linux SO effective and practical to run on low-end equipment (I'm damn proud that my 386/33 has run Linux since 1994 and keeps on trucking -- albeit with a 2.0.36 kernel running on a Slackware 2.1 distribution) are the precise factors why Linux doesn't do as well in the enterprise environment.
And yes, given the choice between hiring another system admin, or spending an extra $2,000.00 for a quad-cpu NT box, many, many departments are going to go the NT route.
World Domination is still a ways off, I'm afraid.
1) I find it hard to believe that Microsoft was able to tailor their kernel (which was essentially rolled out in 4.0 beta 1, back in, oh, 1995?) for benchmarks tests that didn't even exist yet! (And if they did, we should be afraid; very afraid).
2) PC Week just got similar results in THEIR test. I'm just not enough of a conspiracy person to believe the world is against us.
3) In that PC Week test, Solaris 2.7 was found to be the strongest in several areas. Does that mean Sun has also been looking into the crystal ball to try and optimize to beat Linux?
The fact is, a number of the things that make Linux SO effective and practical to run on low-end equipment (I'm damn proud that my 386/33 has run Linux since 1994 and keeps on trucking -- albeit with a 2.0.36 kernel running on a Slackware 2.1 distribution) are the precise factors why Linux doesn't do as well in the enterprise environment.
And yes, given the choice between hiring another system admin, or spending an extra $2,000.00 for a quad-cpu NT box, many, many departments are going to go the NT route.
World Domination is still a ways off, I'm afraid.
