“How Mindcraft could have made a better Linux file server” — an
analysis by Jeremy Allison, one of the lead developers on the Samba
development team.
“If you use Apache or Samba and Linux, you may be scratching
your head at some recent Mindcraft, Inc. benchmark numbers. Their
recent Microsoft-sponsored study found that Windows NT is 2.5 times
faster than Linux/Samba …”
“In our business the three kinds of lies are lies, damn lies,
and benchmarks. By now I’m sure you will have read about the
provocative benchmark test funded by Microsoft and published by
Mindcraft…”