The Super Windows That...Couldn't

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 18, 2008 8:18 PM EDT
ComputerWorld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
Print this story

One of the more bizarre accusations flung by Microsoft at GNU/Linux over the years is that it doesn't scale. This is part of a larger campaign to portray it as a kind of “toy” operating system – fine for low-end stuff, but nothing you'd want to run your enterprise on. Sadly, that narrative has been rather undermined by the independent Top500 supercomputing sites ranking. Five years ago, the GNU/Linux family ran 36.80% of the top 500 supercomputers; worse, Windows ran on precisely one supercomputer.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNU, Linux, Microsoft

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
Amazing scalability of Windows jezuch 4 1,271 Nov 19, 2008 3:47 PM
Dumb logic. dinotrac 0 1,041 Nov 19, 2008 8:00 AM

You cannot post until you login.