“Bloor Research today presented the findings of its operational
review of Linux and Windows NT. The report, called Linux versus NT:
The Verdict, was based on a study of both operating systems from
the standpoint of how they operated in practice to support real
applications. It was possible to rank the products according to the
following nine criteria: Cost/Value for Money, User Satisfaction,
Application Support, OS Interoperability, OS Scalability, OS
Availability, OS Support, Operational Features and OS
Functionality.”
“The products were also ranked according to appropriate
usage, in the following areas of application: File/Print server,
mixed workload server, Web server, mail server, database server,
groupware server, data mart, application server and enterprise
level server.“
“Jon Collins, Senior Analyst at Bloor Research, was quoted as
saying “There has been a lot of comment in the press and on vendor
Web sites, comparing the two products. In particular, vendors have
expressed concerns that no independent comparison of Windows NT and
Linux exists. This report covers areas which previous comparisons
and benchmarks have missed, namely – How do the products compare,
when run operationally in a live environment?”