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This story appeared on Network World Fusion at
http://www.nwfusion.com/best/2004/0223os.html
Windows, Linux, NetWare, Apple OS/X
Network World, 02/23/04
Winning company: Microsoft
Winning product: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Picking the top server or network operating system is like volunteering to sit in the front row at a biblical stoning. You're likely to get hit in the back of the head from every direction.
That said, based on testing of five major operating systems geared to run on enterprise-level servers we conducted this year, Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 comes out on top with Novell NetWare and Red Hat Linux following closely. But note, we base our claims on our testing and acknowledge that they don't necessarily apply across the board.
We tested the enterprise edition of Microsoft's newest release, NetWare 6.5, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 9.0, SuSe Linux - as a representative of the UnitedLinux effort – and Apple's OS/X 10.2.5. While this set of individual tests was not pitched as a head-to-head comparison, we used the same performance methodology and evaluation criteria across the tests. We also used the same hardware for all tests, with the exception of OS/X running on Apple's Xserve platform.
"From both an installation and management perspective, Windows Server 2003 is as flexible and versatile a platform as Microsoft has ever made," says Lab Alliance member Thomas Henderson, who conducted each of the operating system tests. "Microsoft paid attention to the criticisms of Windows 2000. [Win 2003] really replaces NT without the headaches caused by predecessor Windows 2000 - and it's a killer performer."
Microsoft says it has pretty much rewritten Internet Information Server, its Web server, as an integral part of this release. We believe it. In our maximum TCP connection test, which measures the capacity of the server to respond to TCP session requests, the numbers for Win 2003 came in almost 10-fold higher than those for Win 2000. In a more stringent transactional test, in which we tested static Web page transaction cycles, Win 2003 showed improvements of close to fourfold. In a straight I/O test, we saw a 31% increase in number of I/Os per second on Win 2003 (see review).
In addition to performance, Microsoft has added features that help Win 2003 support Web services, make server management easier, provide meta-directory capabilities and let servers running this operating system play a stronger role in storage-area networks.