Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:30:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Snedegar <ryan@positronic.net> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Benchmarks Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990414123302.10247A-100000@ns> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904141517130.29587-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>
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I believe that the stipulation of no benchmarking applies to MS SQL server. I don't recall any such ban in the NT Server License itself, but let me go dig up a copy and re-read it. /. is having a field day with this one, something like 600 messages have been posted in regards to it... Independant testing results (ie, not paid for, run by a non involved third party, with full disclosure of methodology, hardware, software, and benchmark settings used) are the only way to get anything resembling fair results. On the other hand, anyone who wants to run tests vs. NT now has a nice set of parameter to tune with. Ryan Snedegar ryan@positronic.net You like cats too? Let's trade recipes!!! On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Seth wrote: > [ Please -- if you choose to reply to this, just post to -advocacy. Take > my name off it; I'll see it when it hits the list. Thanks! SB ] > > Just something that was posted to #freebsd yesterday. I think it's pretty > interesting for a couple reasons I'll mention below: > > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html > > > Summary: Windows NT outperforms Linux Red Hat in ease-of-install, web > benchmarks, and file server benchmarks (using samba). > > What's hidden in here is that Microsoft sponsored this test (paid > Mindcraft to do it, I guess). > > Something I found interesting. There was a post a while back that > suggested that Microsoft would not allow benchmarks of its own products to > be posted by 3rd parties. Did I misread this? If not, it seems mighty > unfair of them to post benchmarks only when it's in their interest to do > so. > > I wonder how FreeBSD would stack up in these tests. > > > Enjoy... > > SB > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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