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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清華站∶精華區</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清華站∶精華區</H1></CENTER>發信人: MrX (毛線球), 信區: Linux <BR>標 題: Another attack to linux from M$. <BR>發信站: BBS 水木清華站 (Tue Jan 11 18:13:59 2000) <BR> <BR>From <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp">http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp</A> <BR> <BR>With all the recent attention around Linux as an operating system, it's imp <BR>ortant to step back from the hype and look at the reality. First, it's worth <BR> noting that Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. Linux fundamentally reli <BR>es on 30-year-old operating system technology and architecture. Linux was no <BR>t designed from the ground-up to support symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP), <BR>graphical user interfaces (GUI), asynchronous I/O, fine-grained security mod <BR>el, and many other important characteristics of a modern operating system. T <BR>hese architectural limitations mean that as customers look for a platform to <BR> cost effectively deploy scalable, secure, and robust applications, Linux si <BR>mply cannot deliver on the hype. <BR>Myth: Linux performs better than Windows NT <BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <BR>---- <BR>Reality: Windows NT 4.0 Outperforms Linux On Common Customer Workloads <BR>The Linux community claims to have improved performance and scalability in t <BR>he latest versions of the Linux Kernel (2.2), however it's clear that Linux <BR>remains inferior to the Windows NT? 4.0 operating system. <BR>For File and Print services, according to independent tests conducted by PC <BR>Week Labs, the Windows NT 4.0 operating system delivers 52 percent better pe <BR>rformance on a single processor system and 110 percent better performance on <BR> a 4-way system than similarly configured single processor and 4-way Linux/S <BR>AMBA systems. <BR>For Web servers, the same PC Week tests showed Windows NT 4.0 with Internet <BR>Information Server 4.0 delivers 41 percent better performance on a single pr <BR>ocessor system and 125 percent better performance on a 4-way system than Lin <BR>ux and Apache. <BR>For e-commerce workloads using secure sockets (SSL), recent PC Magazine test <BR>s showed Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Information Server 4.0 delivers approx <BR>imately five times the performance provided by Linux and Stronghold. <BR>For transaction-orientated Line of Business applications, Windows NT 4.0 has <BR> achieved a result of 40,368 tpmC at a cost of $18.46 per transaction on a C <BR>ompaq 8-Way Pentium III XEON processor-based system. This industry leading p <BR>rice/performance result from the Transaction Processing Performance Council <BR>(TPC) clearly shows how Windows NT can deliver world-class performance for h <BR>eavy duty transaction processing. It's interesting to note that there is not <BR> a single TPC result on any database running on Linux, and therefore Linux h <BR>as yet to demonstrate their capabilities as a database server. <BR>Linux performance and scalability is architecturally limited in the 2.2 Kern <BR>el. Linux only supports 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM on the x86 architecture,1 co <BR>mpared to 4 GB for Windows NT 4.0. The largest file size Linux supports is 2 <BR> GB versus 16 terabytes (TB) for Windows NT 4.0. The Linux SWAP file is limi <BR>ted to 128 MB. In addition, Linux does not support many of the modern operat <BR>ing system features that Windows NT 4.0 has pioneered such as asynchronous I <BR>/O, completion ports, and fine-grained kernel locks. These architecture cons <BR>traints limit the ability of Linux to scale well past two processors. <BR>The Linux community continues to promise major SMP and performance improveme <BR>nts. They have been promising these since the development of the 2.0 Kernel <BR>in 1996. Delivering a scalable system is a complex task and it's not clear t <BR>hat the Linux community can solve these issues easily or quickly. As D. H. B <BR>rown Associates noted in a recent technical report,2 the Linux 2.2 Kernel re <BR>mains in the early stages of providing a tuned SMP kernel. <BR>Myth: Linux is more reliable than Windows NT <BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <BR>---- <BR>Reality: Linux Needs Real World Proof Points Rather than Anecdotal Stories <BR>The Linux community likes to talk about Linux as a stable and reliable opera <BR>ting system, yet there are no real world data or metrics and very limited cu <BR>stomer evidence to back up these claims. <BR>Windows NT 4.0 has been proven in demanding customer environments to be a re <BR>liable operating system. Customers such as Barnes and Noble, The Boeing Comp <BR>any, Chicago Stock Exchange, Dell Computer, Nasdaq and many others run missi <BR>on-critical applications on Windows NT 4.0. <BR>Linux lacks a commercial quality Journaling File System. This means that in <BR>the event of a system failure (such as a power outage) data loss or corrupti <BR>on is possible. In any event, the system must check the integrity of the fil <BR>e system during system restart, a process that will likely consume an extend <BR>ed amount of time, especially on large volumes and may require manual interv <BR>ention to reconstruct the file system. <BR>There are no commercially proven clustering technologies to provide High Ava <BR>ilability for Linux. The Linux community may point to numerous projects and <BR>small companies that are aiming to deliver High Availability functionality. <BR>D. H. Brown recently noted that these offerings remain immature and largely <BR>unproven in the demanding business world. <BR>There are no OEMs that provide uptime guarantees for Linux, unlike Windows N <BR>T where Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Unisys provide 99.9 <BR>percent system-level uptime guarantees for Windows NT-based servers. <BR>Myth: Linux is Free <BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <BR>---- <BR>Reality: Free Operating System Does Not Mean Low Total Cost of Ownership <BR>The Linux community will talk about the free or low-cost nature of Linux. It <BR>'s important to understand that licensing cost is only a small part of the o <BR>verall decision-making process for customers. <BR>The cost of the operating system is only a small percentage of the overall t <BR>otal cost of ownership (TCO). In general Windows NT has proven to have a low <BR>er cost of ownership than UNIX. Previous studies have shown that Windows NT <BR>has 37 percent lower TCO than UNIX. There is no reason to believe that Linux <BR> is significantly different than other versions of UNIX when it comes to TCO <BR>. <BR>The very definition of Linux as an Open Software effort means that commercia <BR>
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