Linked by Alejandro Tamayo Castillo on Wed 20th Oct 2004 18:48 UTC
In this article I will analyze the features and costs to select which is the best operating system for servers as well as the services that each one of them brings to us.
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This review is like comparing apples and oranges. First which Linux distribution was used? There are some distros that are not meant to build servers, I would be looking at SuSE or RedHat. If money was an issue I would look at White Box Enterprise Linux (RedHat without the price).
How do you compare Active Directory to NO DIRECTORY SERVICE (NIS, NIS+, LDAP (through OpenLDAP))? Alejandro mentions NIS in regards to Desktop Control, this can be done on *NIX without using a Directory Service. You might have to dig through a few books to do it, but it can be done (and has been done).
Performance with no discussion of RAID, not even a disk mirror? What about fault tolerance, a requirement for a "professional server". And how was the performance measured if there was no benchmark tool used?
Alejandro's findings might be right based on his equipment, but the article is way too light on details for my taste.