Bruce Perens -- Bake-off proposal May 7, 1999, 23 :17 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (4615 reads) (Other stories by Bruce Perens)
Instead of griping over this mindcraft benchmark, let's hold a bake-off at
LinuxWorld in August.
We will challenge NT and Linux developers to each field teams to compete at
LinuxWorld. The two teams get identical hardware provided by a
non-competing third-party: Dell, IBM, whoever. The NT team and the Linux
team have a day or two to bootstrap their systems and tune them. Then they
compete on a number of issues. Besides how fast they can serve, etc., let's
make rapid application development one of the issues too. Each team could
be handed a list of tasks to develop using their respective environments,
and could be judged on time to completion, bugginess, features and
elegance, speed, etc. Cover it with live webcasts, etc.
It's sort of like Deep Blue vs. Kasparov. You win on the publicity front
even if you lose.
Pass this on to anyone you like if you think it's interesting.
