“Just recently, I read a Swedish magazine called “Networks &
Communication” (“Nätverk & Kommunikation”, Nr 10 2000,
published by IDG) which included the ultimate test — the test that
would reveal the superior server-side operating system.”
“The four contestants were Novell, Solaris, Red Hat Linux
(that figures) and Windows 2000. How Windows 2000 even got in to
this competition is beyond me since nearly all sysadmins are
familiar with the inferior performance of Windows. What puzzled me
even more is that the writer testing these operating systems gave
the highest average score to Windows 2000!“
“Yes, your guess is as good as mine. What I think is the problem
here, really, is that the tests were conducted by a person who
didn’t come from a Unix background. People who start with Windows
and fail to move on eventually learn to loathe Unix the same way
illiterates loathe books. Aside from grading the systems, which are
already subjective judgments, he also gave away some “facts.”