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C't NT vs Linux benchmarks : Linux wins

Posted by Hemos on from the yeah-its-old dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Go check out this benchmark of Linux vs NT in a real life-situation. C't makes a pretty good point here, showing Linux/Apache to be ahead of NT in performance in daily life! Also compliments the Linux community for its responsiveness: "Emails to the respective [Linux] mailing lists even resulted in special kernel patches which significantly increased performance. " This is the C't benchmark that's been bouncing around lately-translated into English, for all of the German-impaired out there.

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  1. Competition by EisPick · · Score: 5

    An important point gets lost in all the discussion about these benchmarks: Both NT/IIS and Linux/Apache perform astoundingly well, and both perform much better than they would if the other didn't exist. Developers for both sets of products borrow good ideas from the other, and both race to make improvements to keep up.

    MICROS~1 flacks like to blather on about needing their monopoly position in the market to protect their "freedom to innovate," but where they have no competition, they don't innovate. Why can't they acknowledge that the only reason IIS doesn't suck is because Apache exists?

    I wish they had similar competition on the desktop. If they did, maybe I wouldn't need to reboot my Win98 4x/day.