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From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:17:45 GMT
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Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com> wrote:

>Subhas Roy wrote:
>> 
>> A ZDnet article says in the web page
>> http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2
>> that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13

>article that includes a decision tree for web servers that only allows
>outcomes of NT/IIS or Netscape Server and doesn't consider Apache at all

Well, anyway, Novell claims their Web server is by far the fastest on
the market. Apache too. I never saw Microsoft announce their product
was the fastest, however: it's usually an approach they carefully
avoid.