From: "Robert Comer" 

> Microsoft is very good at using benchmarks to point out the shortcoming in
> their competitors products. As such their benchmarks are a great way to
> locate the bottlenecks in other peoples software although they tell you
> little about Microsoft's software.

True, but I doubt that's why they do them. 

> For example, software RAID0 support on RH, I didn't know it sucked, that
was
> valuable information I got from this benchmark test.

I didn't know that either.  It *is* fairly new, so look for it to get better.

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message news:3ebd20e8{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3ebcf3ab$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > I don't believe any of these benchmarks, but you're right, I don't
believe
> > Microsoft's more.
>
> Microsoft is very good at using benchmarks to point out the shortcoming in
> their competitors products. As such their benchmarks are a great way to
> locate the bottlenecks in other peoples software although they tell you
> little about Microsoft's software.
>
> For example, software RAID0 support on RH, I didn't know it sucked, that
was
> valuable information I got from this benchmark test. NT's software RAID0
and
> RAID1 have always been pretty good, I had previously assumed Linux would
be
> similar in this regard.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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