[ Thanks to Jeremy
Allison for this link. ]
“With 10 weeks to go before firms must sign up to Microsoft’s
Software Assurance licensing scheme or pay full price for upgrades,
new tests suggest open-source Samba software may offer a viable
alternative to upgrading file servers to Windows 2000.“Results published this week in IT Week’s sister publication PC
Magazine show that the latest Samba software now surpasses the
performance of Windows 2000 by about 100 percent under benchmark
tests.“In terms of scalability, the results show that Linux and Samba
can handle four times as many client systems as Windows 2000 before
performance begins to drop off. Consequently firms can save money
on hardware and software upgrades, and can avoid the administrative
and financial costs of licensing Windows file servers, by using the
Samba alternative…”
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