The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found the Microsoft ads in which it claims that the cost of running Linux for file and Web serving is ten times as high as running the same workload on Windows 2003 servers, misleading.
Actually, Microsoft compared the cost of running Linux on a single IBM zSeries mainframe engine to the cost of running Windows 20003 on a two-way X86 server using 900 MHz Xeon. And a zSeries mainframe is an enormously expensive platform to run Linux on. Microsoft won't tell you what the comparison would have been on equal platforms (can you guess why not ?), but you can read that in analyst reports by Robert Frances Group and D.H. Brown.
Read more at The Linux Beacon.
Posted by Patrick Van Renterghem at September 1, 2004 10:08 AM