Microsoft -- Get the facts on Windows and Linux

[David Tilbrook]

James Knott wrote:
> Garth Meisel wrote:
> 
>> Roughly Sat January 24 2004 12:38 pm, Rick Tomaschuk said:
>>
>>> Microsoft is pushing cost advantages of Windows over Linux.
>>> I guess when you have a monopoly the costs can be cheaper for
>>> some...
>>>
>>> Check out:
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/analyses.asp
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> If you look closely at the WebSphere benchmarks, none of them were run 
>> on Linux, the platform IBM recommends for WebSphere. They were all run 
>> on AIX, an operating system IBM is phasing out.
> 
> 
> One useful(?) thing I found is Microsoft "Services for Unix", which can 
> be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/downloads/default.asp
> 
> It says only for XP Pro.  I wonder if it's possible to make it work with 
> XP Home, as I don't feel like giving his Billyness any more money.
> 
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SFU is indeed free and will work on W2K as well as XP pro,
but not XP personal.  Bite the bullet ... XP is only $30.

Warning: SFU needs to be on an NTFS file system.

SFU combined with an X server it provides a quite reasonable
environment if one is forced to use windows.

Unfortunately one does need the C++.net product to build software.

There are minor glitches -- really slow when accessing samba file
systems and I have not as yet got the nfs stuff working.

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