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From: ricardo@pico.seas.ucla.edu (Ricardo C. Lagos)
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
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I just finished reading that article ... hmmm .. to me it seemed WAAAY too
eager to sell the Microsoft Web Server...  




Nick Hilliard (nick@Ireland.EU.net) wrote:
: Subhas Roy (subhas@pobox.com) said:
: : 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
: : times) when client counts are low.

: Sounds just like the sort of sycophantic Gates-is-god dross you'd expect
: from PC Computing (or indeed most other ZD publications).

: One interesting things about this article is that the reviewers completely
: failed to give any idea about what hardware was used, what version of Unix
: was used and what the final figures were.  Their description of the test
: sounded arbitrary at best and useless and misleading at worst.  What on
: earth do they mean by "to process a request"?  Do they mean query a
: database?  Fetch a file from a disk?  Run a cgi command?  

: Apart from the pricing information, one could probably dismiss this a wholly
: content-free article.

: Nick

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Ricardo C. Lagos
UCLA Computer Science
ricardo@seas.ucla.edu