Windows .Net servers kill Unix
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The benchmark, conducted in Accenture's High Performance Scalability Lab, compared actual performance data from a manufacturing company now running SAP's R/3 data base on Unix with those results from running R/3 on Microsoft's Windows .Net server. According to the results, the Windows .Net-based application had the same, and sometimes higher, response times compared to the Unix-based system, specifically 508 milliseconds to 700 milliseconds, respectively. They study also showed that the .Net server could be deployed and maintained at about 30 percent of the cost of the Unix solution.
"The results surprised us in a couple of ways. First in terms of price, but more importantly, we were surprised by the actual online performance with a heavy batch component running [on the .Net server] at the same time," said Tim Donahue, an associate partner with Accenture in Columbus, Ohio.