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Samba Beats Windows IT Week Labs Test Results

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thrashing-the-competition dept.

jmhowitt writes "Tests by IT Week Labs show the latest version of the open-source Samba file and print server software is 2.5 times faster than Windows Server 2003 in the same role. The news comes as many firms are grappling with the consequences of Microsoft ending support for NT4, coupled with uncertainty about when Microsoft will next update Windows. The performance difference between Windows Server 2003 and Samba 3 has increased dramatically compared with Samba 2 and Windows 2000 Server."

6 of 380 comments (clear)

  1. Important information for Linux hippies: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your pathetic hobbyist "free" communist OS still sucks. Prepare to be wiped out by the DMCA. You pirates and thieves deserve it. Take comfort in this one tiny, pathetic, temporary scrap of slight superiority, before you are all thrown in jail for your laughable attempts to undermine a perfectly good product, MS Windows.

  2. Mod parent up: +1, Insightful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a true fact. Also, I'm conducting some private research, and the results show conclusively that 2003 Server admins smell much better than Linux admins. The correlation is extremely strong and is statistically significant at the 98% confidence interval. I expect further survey results to strengthen this result even further. While I believe the underlying nature of the correlation may be spurious, it is still an extremely important point for IT hiring managers to remember.

  3. FUCK YOU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux is clearly better. At the last slashdot meetup I had sex with 12 different men (and Michael Sims). I also aquired aids. Therefore linux is better.

  4. Heh, hows that for a whack at MS? by miffo.swe · · Score: 1, Troll

    It was only some days since i read a (biased) article of how much faster windows 2003 was than Samba. I wonder what version they compared against? 0.1?

    Seems like samba is keeping the lead despite MS having thrown every service known to man far to close to the kernel to be comfortable.

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  5. btw, your welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (slashdot sucks)

  6. Eat that MS! (offtopic, troll, redundant -) by Manic+Ken · · Score: -1, Troll

    MUHAA HAAAHAAAHAAA.

    EAT THAT MS

    (I have to lower my karma, I cant cope with all those modpoints..).