__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 14 December 2006 12:01 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Unisys Open Source Migration Helps Leading UK Brokerage Streamline
>> Operations and Customer Service
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | By moving its hardware platform, operating system and applications
>> | to a Linux environment on Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Servers,
>> | Redmayne-Bentley has achieved a tenfold increase in processing power,
>> | an 88 percent reduction in overnight processing times and
>> | significantly enhanced security.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2006-12/artikel-7450176.asp
>
> Hold the phone, that can't be right. There has to be a major difference for
> that sort of speed gain and it can't simply be a move from UNIX to Linux.
>
> There has to be a hardware difference involved here or maybe they had a
> poorly set up UNIX, or more likely a UNIX not compiled for the system that
> it had become over time. I bet your left sock that more resources were put
> into the comms side than is now necessary with modern communications.
>
> I gave this company quite major speed advantages moving much of the
> processing off the UNIX on to the Linux's. The primary difference (allowing
> for the more modern machines being Linux) is that the UNIX kernel was
> compiled primarily with communications in mind, the local processing in
> this case was in comparison fairly minor when I installed the UNIX. Reports
> that took say 2 hours were reduced to 10 minutes on the Linux.
>
> You could estimate that maybe 50% of that speed gain is hardware related,
> the remainder being kernel differences.
>
> So yes they would have got a speed increase switching to Linux, but not
> nearly as much as they say without some other changes too. I bet your right
> sock that if they reversed that now, rebuilt the UNIX system, do updates,
> then there will still be a major speed advantage over the orriginal.
Just like Matt Asay said in reference to Microsoft's and Novell's customer
satisfaction survey... there are lies, damn lies... you know the deal.
Merely every benchmark is biased. Choose an hypothesis, hide the method,
write a press release.
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