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USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-when-usa-today-gives-you-props-you've-made-it dept.

JCallery writes "The Money section of Monday's USA Today carried a feature article entitled "Linux waddles from obscurity to the big time Momentum builds as upstart operating system proves it can compute". It carries a discussion of time and monetary savings in business, basic Sun and Microsoft arguments against Linux, growing popularity with Wall Street, Hollywood, and government organizations, and the credibility of Linux due to alliances with other industry companies."

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  1. Totally useless article... by archnerd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes."
    I really don't appreciate that statement. Clearly, the hardware upgrade was the primary factor in the speed increase. USA Today tries to make it sound like it was all because of Linux. Absolutely detestable journalism.

  2. Is Linux really THAT much faster? by macrom · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So it replaced 32 computer servers, based on the time-tested Unix operating systems
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    The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes

    WTF? Were they also running the time-tested 486? I suspect that hardware had more to do with the performance increase than the actual OS. I mean, full kudos to the Linux crew, but merde, are you really gonna get an increase in speed of such magnitude just by switching OSes? I would be inclined to say "no"...