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Re: Win NT article on Linux deficiencies
Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net> wrote:
> Could the more knowledgeable take a look at this?
> http://www.winntmag.com/Magazine/Article.cfm?IssueID=97&ArticleID=4502
^^^^^^^^
> It almost looks like it was written after the discussion a couple of
> months ago about threads vs processes. I'm particularly concerned
> about the accuracy, and hence acceptance as gospel by industry due to
> the source, of the concluding paragraph:
Let's see -- they get how many millions of dollars a year in ad revenue
from MS? And from the other vendors who rely on NT for the bulk of their
revenue?
And how much revenue do they derive from all commercial Linux distributions
and applications?
> For the next couple
> of years, Linux is stuck with being a valid choice for
> only small uniprocessor servers. None but the most
> CPU-intensive Linux applications will scale past one
> CPU, which makes Linux unacceptable as a
> multiprocessor OS, and therefore as an enterprise-class OS.
Linux may not scale as well as certain commercial Unices at the moment,
but NT is currently even less scalable. If the whole article is as
accurate as this, just dismiss it as FUD.
Charles
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