OSS Web Stacks Outperformed by .Net?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 11, 2006 @02:40AM from the sad-penguin dept.

Gimble writes "eWeek has an article up that looks at the performance of portals using open source stacks and comparing them to their MS equivalents. The article's conclusion is that .Net outperforms the open source stacks, mainly because of its tighter integration, but also notes that running the open source stacks on Windows (WAMP) delivered strong performance." From the article: "Based on our forays into user forums for many top open-source enterprise applications, there are many IT managers attempting to run open-source products on Windows servers--attracted, no doubt, to the benefits and efficiencies of using open source without having to become Linux administrators. The results of our WAMP stack tests indicate that these folks might be on to something."

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MindCraft would be the "worst" so far. by khasim · 2006-07-11 03:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

But this is a very close second place.

#1. NO tuning was done on the LAMP stuff. None at all. They ran the stuff "out of the box".

#2. They didn't write their own app. That means they didn't test the SAME processes on each system.

#3. They didn't bother to find WHERE the differences were. Is it in the IP stack? Is it in the OS? Is it in the scripting language? Is it in the app?

How bad can "research" be and still be published in "eWeek"? There wasn't any research done for that article.

Microsoft has, in the past, taken various short-cuts when IIS was the server and IE was the browser. Is that the case in this "study"? Are the other "stacks" "slower" because they follow the protocols?

You won't know because they'd didn't LOOK for the REASON behind their "results".

At least MindCraft was paid to do poor research.