{"id":512,"date":"2004-01-06T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=512"},"modified":"2004-01-06T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T20:16:31","slug":"microsoft-linux-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2004\/01\/06\/microsoft-linux-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Linux Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mscorp\/facts\/default.asp\">new campaign <\/a> to provide corporations with &#8220;the facts you need to make the choice between Windows and Linux&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One of their facts, titled &#8220;WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive to Operate Than Linux Mainframe&#8221;, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMicrosoft-sponsored benchmarks prove that multiple WinTel Web servers perform better than a Linux mainframe acting as a Web server consolidator\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An odd comparison to be sure, like comparing apples to orchards.  How do multiple WinTel Web servers stack up against multiple Intel Linux Web servers, I wonder?  <\/p>\n<p>By leading off with such transparently evasive comparisons, I&#8217;m really not encouraged to attach any credence to the rest of their arguments, however valid.  I can&#8217;t say that I really even care to read on to the meat when the headlines and intro blurbs make their assessment of my intelligence pretty clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has a new campaign to provide corporations with &#8220;the facts you need to make the choice between Windows and Linux&#8221;. One of their facts, titled &#8220;WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive to Operate Than Linux Mainframe&#8221;, says: Microsoft-sponsored benchmarks prove that multiple WinTel Web servers perform better than a Linux mainframe acting as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}