“British outfit Bloor Research has — “by coincidence,” it says
— intervened in the Linux versus NT wrangle with some tests of its
own. The results of these, Bloor says, show that Linux is
superior to NT in six of nine categories devised to test the two
“from the standpoint of how they operated in practice to support
real applications.“
“Bloor’s coincidence is a happy one, as the Linux world is
currently aflame over the strange tale of the Gartner-MS
report.”
“But although Linux seems to do well, Bloor concludes that
neither Linux nor NT is “suitable for use as an enterprise level
server.” This isn’t particularly welcome news for Microsoft, which
is keen to get NT accepted at enterprise level, but will be of
little consequence in the Linux world, where penetration at the
highest levels of the enterprise isn’t yet an issue.”