Technology by Jacob Dybala

The Get The Facts campaign is Microsoft’s way of telling you "Linux is bad for you while not helping our financial statements, either".

There is a new benchmark to fuel the Linux / Windows wars: an "independent"? test benchmarking Windows 2003 Server with IIS (Internet Information Services) and Red Hat Linux with Apache.

Microsoft financed the benchmark (but that does not mean the test was biased, now does it? and the results… The IIS is 300% faster than Apache on Linux.

Believe whatever you want to but I’ve seen previous benchmarks from Microsoft and the "Get the Facts Campaign"; not only are the results carefully tailored, but only the good results are presented. For the record, I am bashing Microsoft, just highlighting how the campaign works. At the same time I have to mention that the purpose of marketing is to promote a product and only the good is

Here’s the paper:
Windows 2003 vs. Apache on Linux Web Server Benchmark

Remember the Windows and Linux file sharing test? Veritest conducted that one as well. Here are the links and an independent test to verify results.

Veritest / Microsoft:
http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/microsoft/
http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/microsoft/ms_netbench.pdf

IT Week’s Windows 2003 vs Linux and Samba file system test and comparison:
http://www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html