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by David M Williams   
Thursday, 01 May 2008
This Video Ezy story is not unique. On Monday I told the story of a recent case study posted to the site and available right now on the very front page of the Windows Server vs Linux microsite. It shows under a bold caption, “See how Windows Server 2008 stacks up verse Linux.” Yet, this piece too was a complete and utter farce and fabrication.

This time around Microsoft claimed to show why customers were choosing Windows Server 2008 over Linux. HiChina Web Solutions were picked as the mouthpiece, saying that with Windows Servers 2008 their overall reliability was increased by 20% - which directly increases capacity to serve customers and consequently improves revenue.

Once again, any person skimming the headlines would think HiChina are saying Linux proved to be less reliable than Windows, that a Windows solution was measured to be 20% more reliable than an equivalent Linux offering.

Yet this is simply not what happened. Again, the case study is clear: HiChina didn’t host customer web sites on Linux systems. They provided hosting for ASP.NET applications using Windows Server 2003 computers and Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) 6. It was a Microsoft shop. And actually, this was the cause of their problems; server performance diminished over time and had constraints limiting the amount of pages or applications which could be hosted.

When HiChina’s Technical Director said Windows Server 2008 increased reliability the key word here is “2008” not “Windows Server.” The reliability gain was a result of migrating from Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 to Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.

Really, this case study is an example of why you might want to upgrade your existing Windows infrastructure to the newest Windows server platform – but that’s all. There’s absolutely nothing to be found in this case study giving a case against Linux or showing that any comparison or evaluation transpired in any form. Microsoft ought to pull it off their site.

Yet, the headline is unambiguous: read this case study, it declares, and you will see why customers are choosing Windows over Linux. This is totally deceitful.

I returned to look around some more. Would I find an honest case study, I wondered?

If you look now there are two all new case studies listed, at the bottom of the left hand pane. The first cites an IT services division of Brazil Telecom, called iG, as having migrated their online presence from Linux to Windows. As a result of the move they had better performance over fewer servers and reduced cost.

The second covers high performance computing manufacturer SGI in their quest to provide Windows options on their servers to ease entry and adoption by those customers and potential customers who favoured a Windows option over a Linux one.

How do these case studies stack up? And what should Microsoft do? Please read on.

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