OT - Reliability Survey: Windows Servers Beat Linux Boxes

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:19:05PM +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 10:21 +0200, Sebastian Gil wrote:
> 
> > Could you please read this article?
> >  http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188701946&subSection=All+Stories
> 
> 
> " Windows 2003 Server, in fact, led the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> with nearly 20 percent more annual uptime. "
> 
> 20% more annual uptime..??  What does that mean? Like if Windows 2003
> was up 99.something% of the time, then what was Red Hat?  Was it only
> 79.something% up?   What?

No no, there are 1,000,000 Windows servers out there each up for an hour
each, and 95 RedHat servers which were up all year... (that's 1,000,000
hours for windows, and only 830,000 hours for RHEL -- hence the 20%
increase...)

> Anyway, let's move on.  How should the people at Information Week
> die? :)

Now, now.  As long as they're made non-communicative, that will be quite
sufficient.

- Matt

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