“We’ve recently looked at the shipping versions from four major
players in the NOS market: Red Hat Software’s Red Hat Linux 5.2,
Novell’s NetWare 5.0, Microsoft’s Windows NT Server 4.0 and Sun
Micro-systems’ Solaris 7.”
“Linux is a favorite among those who want to set up an
inexpensive Web server. With a total cost of less than $100 for
both the Linux 5.2 server and the Apache Web server, and the
ability to run a fairly high-performance server on a midrange
Pentium II system, Linux provides a lot of functionality for little
cost. Linux boasts good stability, easy setup and many additional
tools.”