Probably not, these guys (Sun, IBM, etc.) want to sell lots and lots of high dollar hardware. Their interest in software is to protect their hardware sales. The NSA has to run their software on something and I for one hope that my government is using something other than 80x86 PCs to do the work that the NSA does.
Do the math on these numbers, 20K hits per day is 20000 / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds which comes to.23 hits per second. An Atari 800 on a diesel generator could probably handle that. These statistics would indicate that Apache is completely lame compared to IIS. We use both here but for different purposes and happen to run both on DELL hardware. Apache and IIS are not going to be an order of magnitude different on the same hardware. Those numbers _must_ be wrong. Call DELL and ask them. They sell plenty of RedHat Linux systems (I have some of them) and they _like_ Linux and OpenSource. If those numbers _were_ true, DELL wouldn't have published it. Selling RedHat+Apache is money in their pocket saved from the extra expense of NT+IIS.
Actually, Senator Byrd should be protecting national interests just like the fine representatives from the other 49 states that have protected all of our interests by diverting billions (if not trillions) of dollars to their respective states underprivileged defense industries. As you may have guessed I am originally from WV and quite thankful that I received an excellent education from Marshall University in Huntington, WV. Unfortunately, I had to move to the Washington, DC suburbs to get a good job. The NRAO at Greenbank is chump change compared to the gushers of money flowing to the beltway bandits around DC. Greenbank at least has a chance of contributing something. The flag waving defense industry leeches that infest the DC area only serve to enrich themselves and employ their retired military lackeys.
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Probably not, these guys (Sun, IBM, etc.) want to sell lots and lots of high dollar hardware. Their interest in software is to protect their hardware sales. The NSA has to run their software on something and I for one hope that my government is using something other than 80x86 PCs to do the work that the NSA does.
Do the math on these numbers, 20K hits per day is 20000 / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds which comes to .23 hits per second. An Atari 800 on a diesel generator could probably handle that. These statistics would indicate that Apache is completely lame compared to IIS. We use both here but for different purposes and happen to run both on DELL hardware. Apache and IIS are not going to be an order of magnitude different on the same hardware. Those numbers _must_ be wrong. Call DELL and ask them. They sell plenty of RedHat Linux systems (I have some of them) and they _like_ Linux and OpenSource. If those numbers _were_ true, DELL wouldn't have published it. Selling RedHat+Apache is money in their pocket saved from the extra expense of NT+IIS.
Actually, Senator Byrd should be protecting national interests just like the fine representatives from the other 49 states that have protected all of our interests by diverting billions (if not trillions) of dollars to their respective states underprivileged defense industries. As you may have guessed I am originally from WV and quite thankful that I received an excellent education from Marshall University in Huntington, WV. Unfortunately, I had to move to the Washington, DC suburbs to get a good job. The NRAO at Greenbank is chump change compared to the gushers of money flowing to the beltway bandits around DC. Greenbank at least has a chance of contributing something. The flag waving defense industry leeches that infest the DC area only serve to enrich themselves and employ their retired military lackeys.