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From: mwood@indyvax.iupui.edu (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Message-ID: <1996Sep21.090951.26629@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 96 09:09:51 -0500
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In article <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au>, rxt651@leonard.anu.edu.au (Rohan Tronson) writes:
> Ok, these comments are all very well.  However in the field of Chemistry,
> which is my background, if you disagree with a published result, and can
> prove it, you publish your own, contraditory results.  Which it seems is
> what we need to do as a community (with more than just this issue)!

Very well it works, too, as long as everybody agrees to play by these rules.

> First contact with the publishers/authors of the original article is needed,
> will they release details such as what hardware was used and what versions of
> UNIX, and what benchmarks they carried out.

Hahahahahahaha.

> Next an article prepared, using our own system, comparing them as fairly and
> as scientifically as possible,  submit this article to something like Linux
> Journal (the wider audience the better, and the more general the audience the
> better, perhaps someone can suggest a more appropriate publication) and also
> submit a letter, citing the new article to the magazine in which the orgininal
> article was published.

Computerworld or Information Week come to mind.  The decision makers don't read
Linux Journal.  The real problem is that, regardless of what you or I think (or
*know*), they will probably believe ZD's shoddy "research" and have us rip out
satisfactory working systems to replace them with the current trendy "solution".
-- 
Mark H. Wood, Opinionated Upstart   [@disclaimer@]
Trapped in a world he never made.