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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4avm5r$2b2@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4aku63$4bd@news.nstn.ca> <cnordin.818891987@news.vni.net> <4ar1vh$co5@news.voicenet.com> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 23:53:31 GMT Lines: 60 In article <4ar1vh$co5@news.voicenet.com>, 900RR <900RR> wrote: >cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin) wrote: > > >>If you already know NT and you want to learn as you go, expecting >>no more than 300,000 hits per day, go NT > >Hmmm, > >www.microsoft.com AVERAGES 2,000,000 hits per day from over 9,000 >different addresses. 5,000 searches and 100,000 downloads. DAILY. > >ftp.microsoft.com handles 300 simultaneous connections with 300,000 >file transactions per week. 6,000 different users login per day. > >Each server runs Windows NT Server 3.51 (surprise!) and is a quad >Pentium SMP Compaq ProLiant with a CDDI card linked to a T3 line (1 T3 >= 44 T1 lines) direct to the Internet. Each box runs this config. > Wow!!! You mean that it takes a QUAD (read: 4) processor high-end Pentium using NT to do the same thing (and probably less) that ftp.freebsd.org, wcarchive.cdrom.com, ..... does using FreeBSD and a lowly 100MHz Pentium w/128MB of ram.... I am very impressed, probably $10K more in hardware making up for the SLOW software!!!! > >I think Microsoft would be interested in your theories on that 300,000 >hit/day barrier, given the fact that they do that in less than 1 hour >at times. > I think he was talking about *normal* motherboards.... > >I need SMP support. - When guys, when? I can get SMP boards for just >over a grand. With chips! > Oh, a normal SMP board -- FreeBSD will be getting SMP probably middle-late of next year -- kernels are already running, but are kind-of experimental :-). I would not count BSDI out either!!!! > >Netscape Communications Server >Unix=$1295 NT=$495 > >Netscape Commerce Server >Unix=$2995 NT=$1295 > >Same products, same capabilities. Why are the unix versions MORE than >TWICE as much money? Because everything in unix costs LOTS more than >the NT version. Or is completely free. Very strange. > Same capabilities on how-much-more-expensive hardware :-). I'll guess that the cost of the hardware differences is more than the cost of the software differences :-). Of course the difference in cost might be because UNIX is considered industrial-strength, and they don't think that toy-software users will spend lots of money on their applications :-). John dyson@freebsd.org