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From: adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 18 Sep 1996 11:11:04 -0400
Organization: Panix
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In article <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
Mark Hahn <hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> wrote:
>> http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2
>> that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13
>> times) when client counts are low.
>
>this is asinine.  show me NT on an 8M p5/100 serving 300 hits/second.
>that's not even hard with Linux.
>
>the sad thing is that these people think they're in the know...
>

For chuckles, I'd like to quote from a Microsoft document sent to MS
Solution Provider program members. From "A Concise Guide to Selling
Microsoft Internet Information Server", MS document # 7039A, Page 6.

Support Point: 	Fastest Web server

Evidence:	Benchmark tests show IIS outperforms all other Windows NT Web 
		Servers by at least 250%, even outrunning expensive 
		UNIX-based solutions (which require propriety hardware).

Support Point: Always Available

Evidence:	Web server will not crash. Protected memory and
		micro-kernel architecture of Windows NT server provide the 
		most reliabel platform.  


I like NT, but I'd never claim it's fast. 

-- 
Al Dykes
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adykes@panix.com