Microsoft Study Favors Linux
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Latest Microsoft sponsored benchmarks conducted by Veritest gives enterprises all the more reason to consider Linux as a serious alternative.
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To begin with the tests use older versions of all critical Linux software - Red Hat Advanced 2.1, Apache 1.3.23 and TUX 2.1. The settings used while benchmarking are also clearly in favour of Windows Server 2003 (Win2k3). But in spite of all these, the figures indicate that the outdated Linux servers performed well.
According to figures given in the report, Win2k3 servers provided best performance while serving out static pages (HTML pages only) on 8 processor (8P) servers. But on single processor servers certain Linux configurations (RHAS + TUX + Apache) can provide similar performance. It is very unlikely that enterprises will use 8-way servers to serve out HTML-only pages. However, it might be reasonable to expect single processor (1P) systems to be used, in which case, the benefits gained by using Win2003 are marginal (12% over corresponding Linux configurations)...
The report shows that older Linux configurations provide better performance scale up over the latest Windows 2003 Server. All the more reason for enterprises to evaluate the latest Linux distributions and software before upgrading existing Windows servers. Full Story |
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