The Problem With Vendor Sponsored Testing

Posted by kingttx on Jan 20, 2011 10:23 PM EDT
The Unified Computing Blog; By Dave Alexander
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Sponsored tests (from any organization) will always be biased, and therefore unreliable from a technical perspective. There are always tuning parameters that the “loser” will insist were wrong which skewed the results, there are always different ways to architect the test that would have given the “loser” an edge. That’s why they’re sponsored tests.

{{A relatively old blog entry from 2010 and not directly related to Linux, but it does touch on how sponsored "tests" MS puts out against Linux touches a nerve in the community.}}

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