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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!sierra.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!hustle.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!truffula!cls From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Subject: strictly commercial, Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc Sender: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (root) Organization: habitat of the Lorax Message-ID: <Dy1JLM.66w@truffula.sj.ca.us> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51sjhs$hel@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:08:10 GMT Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130348 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27617 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43849 In article <51sjhs$hel@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> wrote: >Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> 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 >> times) when client counts are low. >> >> Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the >> article's claim? > >I would say that the article is absolutely useless since it makes >absolutely no mention of which particular variety of UNIX they are using, >or which webserver. > >Actually, since they seem to view IIS's freeness as being important, the >fact that they don't even mention some of the best UNIX-clones (and >arguably the best webserver) is very telling. OTOH, to be fair, they may >not even know that there are free UNIX-clones. Hmm... Many stories you see in the commercial media are planted by public relations professionals. In the case of the trade press, there are often negotiations as to when and where the story will be placed, whether any "hostile" articles will appear in the same issue, which quotes will be used, and so on. The first question to ask when evaluating any commercial story is "who planted this?" It amazes me when non-commercial efforts (Linux, Ralph Nader for President, whatever) get any space in the commercial press at all. Cameron