Re: [Sheflug] win2000?

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> Has anyone seen the specs for win2000 DataCenre 64GIG memory and 32
> procesors holy shit, are microsoft actualy starting to produce a good
> product. Just out of interest what are similar specs for linux i was told
a
> limit of 4 GIG of ram and 4 processors.
> I hope Microsoft arnt bettering linux???

Win2000 has needed to scale up for ages, and it scales up better than Linux.
Linux scales outwards better, not so good at scaling up. Different market.
Win2000 DataCenter is probably very good - Win2000 so far has shown itself
to be very stable, and Win2KDC is unlikely to be any different. However,
that's not really going to impact Linux at all - the number of customers who
need something this size are probably few, and are probably in the Fortune
500 ;))

> Also anyone know any web sites with REAL TRUE performance comparisons
> between linux and Win2000.

No such thing I'm afraid. You can't just say 'this is faster than the
other', because they're designed differently, and as such have different
goals. Currently, Linux seems to be the faster webserving solution. This
wasn't always the case, and may change again in the future. If you're
running SAMBA, Linux is often quicker than Win2k for some versions of
Windows, Win2k is often quicker for others. There's not a lot in it, to be
honest.

I think it's worth remembering that as far as Microsoft are concerned,
Windows isn't terribly important right now. It's not where they make their
money, and certainly in the desktop world there isn't much more they can do
with it (in terms of market share). There's an extremely good article in
Computer Weekly (last weeks, will have been replaced by the time you read
this) about the real stuff Microsoft is concerned about. MS Office is what
makes them money, and from what we know about Office 10 it looks more and
more like Office is going to be no longer a 'suite', more a 'platform'. This
is far more problematic and dangerous than anything they could integrate
into Windows, and it may be that we're beginning to see the beginning of the
end of 'Windows' as a platform for development. That's certainly where I'd
put my money, and I'd warrant that the possibility of that is far more
detrimental to Linux than the DoJ case, integrating IE into Win, anything.
Take a look at the detail of .net - that's where I think the effort is going
to go, and I think that's where Linux is going to face competition in the
next 3-5 years.

Cheers,

Alex.

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