On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 09:37, George Gambill wrote:
> What about performance where Samba 3.0 has tested at 2.5 times faster than
> Windows Server 2003.  And, the performance gains of Samba 3.0 grows above
> 2.5 times at heavy loads.
> 
> http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/pipermail/advocacy/2003-October/000759.html
> 
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I'm sure that we could (and many already have) debated individual
aspects of the systems and yes, I have found performance to be
exceptionally good on Linux in terms of not only network performance but
uptimes and patching requirements too.

I could also counter that now, having set up a Samba 3 / LDAP backend
(master/slave), PDC & BDC network (actually a migration from existing
NT4 domain), DHCP, DNS etc. that the time requirement to set all this up
was easily 5 times greater on Linux than using Win2K server and AD.

I am not quite sure that in a small business network, that any
incremental network throughput benefits of Linux vs. Windows Server is
going to be a big selling point. The time and cost of setting it up is
definitely a big selling point. That's my opinion and according to Chris
G, it may be a bit too forceful  ;-)

Craig