CXOtoday: Microsoft Study Favors Linux

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"Latest Microsoft sponsored benchmarks conducted by Veritest gives enterprises all the more reason to consider Linux as a serious alternative.

"To begin with the tests use older versions of all critical Linux software--Red Hat Advanced 2.1, Apache 1.3.23 and TUX 2.1. The settings used while benchmarking are also clearly in favour of Windows Server 2003 (Win2k3). But in spite of all these, the figures indicate that the outdated Linux servers performed well..."

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