From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 14 13:34:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p04.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF3514C4C for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA21372; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 06:32:06 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 06:32:05 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Philip Rust Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: check out this article Message-ID: <19990415063205.D20607@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <61C26502785FD111BFD300805FCB59127D675B@EMAIL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <61C26502785FD111BFD300805FCB59127D675B@EMAIL> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 at 15:02:14 -0500, Philip Rust wrote: > Hey, I was wondering if I could get a response from you guys about > this link. I know that it does not talk about FreeBSD, but Red Hat > Linux instead, but I see it as relavent to the Unix and open source > community in general. For example, I have been telling my boss the > good things about FreeBSD and open source and Linux (hey, I'd rather > use Linux than NT), and so he shows me this article as to why he > wouldn't be open to any kind of free Unix. So what do you guys think > about this: here's the link: > > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html > > I mean, is there some kind of flaw or technical bias in this article? I don't know.. the testing was sponsored by Microsoft themselves. Now I'm not saying that there is, but given their business practices I wouldn't be totally shocked. Btw, doesn't Microsoft get pissed and threaten lawsuits if people publish results of NT benchmarks? Oh wait, I guess that doesn't apply to ones they sponsor (wonder who's gonna come out on top in those?) ;) IMO, the only way I'd believe those results is if I was standing in the lab watching it. Other than that, as I said.. given Microsoft's business practices, I wouldn't weigh to heavily on any test results sponsored by them. Just my $0.02. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message