Windows / Unix server question
This is not another post to start a bashing contest between Windows and Linux adepts, but something from one of my classes... I'm detecting some BS here, but I can't find anything "unbiased" to prove it... Anyone have any opinions?
Here's the post in question:
Quote:
While testing Operating Systems for the Justice Department, I worked with engineer's from Microsoft, Data General, BSD, and Sun.
White papers showed that Windows only emulates multitasking, and that is the reason that they only have a 10% share of the server market. The majority of servers are Unix based.(even Microsoft has Unix Servers)
For performance we tested how many web pages each could handle per minute...Windows choked at 50,000 hits per minute, and Unix could handle in access of over 1 Million hits per minute.
People much smarter that me agreed that this was a multitasking issue.
I don't buy the "10% share of the server market" for Windows... afaik, it's much higher. For web servers, it's somewhere around 20% according to Netcraft. Makes me wonder how old his "research" is.
And 1 million hits per minute? In a test? How? And what server?...
Anyone care to debunk this? Or confirm so I can go give him some credit? :D