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Three Enterprise Operating Systems Compared

Posted by timothy on from the or-none-of-the-above dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Finally, a much awaited review of enterprise OSes. The guys from NW Test Alliance pitted Red Hat, UnitedLinux, and Windows against each other and rated them on several rubrics. Red Hat won by a slight margin on the basis of its high hardware compatibility and strong security integration."

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  1. Re:Comparison of Windows and Linux: Apple and Oran by borgboy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Absolutely. I agree with you 100 percent. It depends upon your (staff's) experience. Although, it's *nix I have to sit down and RTFM for.

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    meh.
  2. Re:Comparison of Windows and Linux: Apple and Oran by arkanes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was at the Windows 2003 launch in NY, and the dude giving the presentation touched briefly on Linux (it was very interesting, actually - he certainly didn't dwell on it, was basically dismissive). They did show some benchmarks (against Redhat 5, oddly enough) but the impression given was that they aren't interested in competing in a pure performance arena. He was hyping Windows 2003 as an end-to-end solution, because of all the bundled middleware and groupware and whatnot. And lets be honest, if thats what you want, Linux isn't going to provide it - certainly not out of the box.