Intel Benchmark Test: Linux Goes to 600,000

According to new tests performed by Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) , the database performance of a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux rivals that of servers running Windows or Unix software. Since handling a database is a heavyweight computing chore, requiring an OS to perform a blizzard of transactions, this new benchmark score is considered a major coup for the open source OS.
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