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Re: [News] Linux Stacks and .Net Stacks

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 10 July 2006 15:23 \__
> 
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> eWEEK Labs Bakeoff: Linux Versus .Net Stacks
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Talk about your Romeo and Juliet: Neither the open-source nor the
>>>| Windows communities seem to be able to accept a marriage of
>>>| open-source server components and Windows operating systems.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>                 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1983364,00.asp
>> 
>> Why would you want to marry free with something proprietary, requiring
>> licences, high exit costs, and so on?
>> 
>> I appreciate that these articles are focussed on the technical aspects
>> of things, but you can't ignore costs.
> 
> They also neglect stability, which affect TCO, unlike performance in
> isolation (as skeptic as I may be about it as a whole[1]). Might as well,
> squeeze in some IIS and call that a WIMP. If you ask me, the article is
> attempting to be cocky to both sides, avoiding any flames and lost
> readership.
> 

I think that these articles probably need to 'grow up' a little.
Probably the writers need to, in order to make that happen.

> 
> 
> [1] Which distribution used? What specifications (it's a black art of mis/fit
> to system requirements)? X enabled/running? Conclusion: not enough
> information. Most benchmarks are inconclusive, biased and subjected to one
> point in time (specification 'demography').
> 


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