Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:01:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel <dave@dnh.pce.net> To: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> Cc: Michael Slater <mikey@iexpress.net.au>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction (Unix vs NT) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904151600050.33023-100000@dnh.pce.net> In-Reply-To: <37153D26.A7084B9E@TurnAround.com.au>
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Slashdot had a rather extensive discussion of this. Read the comments about the article. According to what I can gather from hearsay: Basically, the test appears to be funded by microsoft, and there are many complaints about how it was conducted. Furthermore, Mindcraft has developed quite a reputation for crappy and skewed tests. Have a look at some of their other benchmarks. They would have you believe that -NT kicks ass on Solaris, Novell etc. Be sure to read the commments at slashdot- it's rich. They even have Mindcraft's posting to a newsgroup about Apache performance. Also, be sure to visit http://www.novell.com/advantage/nw5/nw5-mindcraftcheck.html to see how a similar test "proved" NT was better than Novell Netware 5.0 On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Andrew Johns wrote: > What a load of rot!! Tell them to: > > a) **WAKE UP** > b) Get their hand off it... > c) Read http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/ > > ...then see what they have to say. > > To be 'fair' (ie:not clobber NT too much) there are "different > horses for different courses" and that's it. > > -- > Regards | _/\_/\ > Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ > TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ > http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ > > "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I > installed FreeBSD." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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