> Remember, all of this hoo-ha is being generated by Microsoft's Marketing
> department, *not* engineering.
>
> I don't think they particularly care about getting anyone's attention
> who is using linux. We already know it works, or we wouldn't be using
> it.
>
> They're trying to distract those who might otherwise consider linux as a
> viable alternative to NT. They've set the test up so that whether "the
> Linux Community", Inc. shows up or not, they come out smelling rosy.
> They win even if "the Linux Community" shows up for the test. They've
> already determined some configurations on which they can make NT perform
> reasonably well against Linux (you don't think they'd do this unless
> they already knew the results, do you?), and have placed the focus on
> "NT vs. Linux" rather than "NT vs. Linux" on these narrow
> configurations. Let Red Hat propose a test and see if MS agrees to
> it.
Okay, then can show us we do not perform well enough in some hw
configurations. Let them. I'd like to see the results, anyway. They
may show we are 2 times slower than NT. In Microsoft's test I call it
good result.
Pavel
PS: Why don't they compute performance/price ratio? ;-)
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