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From: Alain.Knaff@poboxes.com (Alain Knaff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 1 Oct 1996 16:07:56 GMT
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In <52reno$lm3@news-rocq.inria.fr>, Bernard Lang <lang@calva.inria.fr> wrote:
:>In article <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com>, Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> writes:
:>|> A ZDnet article says in the web page
:>|> http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2
:>|> that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13
:>|> times) when client counts are low.
:>|> 
:>|> Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the
:>|> article's claim?
:>
:>If you read ZD commercials, you get what you deserve.
:>
:>   I am just surprised they have not been sued yet by some citizen
:>organization for they outrageous lies by commission or omission.
:>   It is not a matter of opinion and free speech... they sell their
:>stuff as information, and they cheat their customers.

 No they don't.  Their customers are not their readers, but their
advertisers.  The readers are only the product sold ;-)

-- 
 Linux - Why use Windows, since there is a door?

 Alain