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Re: [News] Business Moves from Microsoft to Linux, Saves Money, Gets Better Performance

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> .NET to LINUX conversion
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The initial results are showing that our site is running about 60% faster 
>| now. Here is a comparison chart of three main pages of our site and the size 
>| before and after. Overall, it's a 25% savings site-wide on performance. If 
>| you take into account that we are now showing more pictures on 
>| the "City-Catego" page, we think the savings is more like 35-45%.    
>| 
>| We're lovin' LINUX!
> `----
> 
> http://www.stevencox.com/2007/08/net-to-linux-co.html
> 
> Performance boosted significantly. 

25% savings are so huge that every business will need to take this
seriously.  That's a big chunk of money, even for a small IT department.

> No surprise given benchmarks like this new
> one:
> 
> Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison  
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Linux has an abundance of excellent terminal applications. Interestingly, I 
>| could not find any decent comparison of their text display performance. Since 
>| I use the command line a lot, I want text output that is as fast as possible. 
>| When you compile a large project, you don?t want the console output to be the 
>| limiting factor.    
> `----
> 
> http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/09/01/comprehensive-linux-terminal-performance-comparison/
> 
> Watch Windows. What an embarrassment for a very limited and ugly shell.


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