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    e) Confirm that apps usually run faster in Linux than in Windows, because of the different memory management.<br>
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Where did you get the idea that apps (in general) run faster in Linux???  The same program compiled on Linux or Windows should run equally fast on the same hardware.<div class="im"><blockquote type="CITE"><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/207204/LSE-Breaks-World-Record-In-Trade-Speed-With-Linux?from=rss"></a></blockquote>
</div></div></blockquote><div>Perhaps he has read the following newsarticle where a Microsoft .net approach from Accenture ended in a day of &quot;downtime&quot; and the linux implementation set new records (towards other linux implementations of other applications)</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="im"><blockquote type="CITE"><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/207204/LSE-Breaks-World-Record-In-Trade-Speed-With-Linux?from=rss">http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/207204/LSE-Breaks-World-Record-In-Trade-Speed-With-Linux?from=rss</a> </blockquote>
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