Re: Win NT article on Linux deficiencies

["Geoff Winans" <midngt@hotmail.com>]

You think that one is bad, you should see the one from LinuxToday and 
the StandishGroup article. THAT was utter, pure, FUD!

Right here,

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/3825.html


>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:42:20 -0600
>From: Charles Cazabon <charlesc-linuxmisc@qcc.sk.ca>
>To: linux-future@nl.linux.org
>Subject: Re: Win NT article on Linux deficiencies
>Reply-To: linux-future@nl.linux.org
>
>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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>Charles Cazabon       <charlesc-linuxmisc@qcc.sk.ca>
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