Windows Small Business Server vs. Red Hat Enterprise Server
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Windows Small Business Server 2003, which Microsoft is launching officially on Thursday, was found to require substantially less time and fewer steps to deploy certain audited tasks in a full-installation scenario, vis-à-vis Red Hat Enterprise Server 2.1. Veritest also found Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Server 2.1 both achieved the same levels of up-time over a 61 day period. The same study found that Windows was easier to set up and recover. In addition to the new Veritest study and the aforementioned Forrester report, Microsoft also funded earlier this year another Veritest study which measured Windows Server 2003 vs. Red Hat Linux 7.2 reliability. (The two were found equal, although Windows was proclaimed easier to administer and recover.)
Microsoft also commissioned a study earlier this summer on WebSphere vs. .Net security, which was performed by @stake. Microsoft's .NET was proclaimed the winner in that contest. And late last year, International Data Corp.-performed total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) study, which examined Windows vs. Linux. IDC found that Windows beat Linux in four of five categories in that report.