Linux VICTORY !

[John Mosier]

Excelco sells Business Management Software that runs on Linux,
as well as many other servers.

We had a victory here last week.  At one of my client's sites,
where they run BUNCHES of NT servers, we installed a SuSe 7.1
linux server.  Our application, which involves a high volume
of transactions with extensive business logic, is I/O and compute
intensive. (eg 500,000 line items to become 10,000 invoices).
This process takes days to run on NT.

In our first test, we got around a 5 times faster throughput on
a $2,000 Compaq server with SuSe Linux file system.  The 5x
speed improvement is really better than that, as the NT Server
is a dual processor $15,000 HP server with elaborate RAID, and
BOKU memory. Our next step is to install a second processor
in the Compaq and re-run the test.

Once that is accomplished, we plan to upgrade the hardware
for the Linux server.

John Mosier, Excelco, Inc. NEW contact info: Free:  866 225-3605

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