[Dominic Harr]

Wow! MS pulls a better score on faster hardware! Wow!

The MS solution is tested on a ProLiant DL760-900-128P with 272 processors.

Total system cost: $10,603,803.

The Linux solution uses the HP ProLiant DL580-PDC 32P C/S , 32 processors.

Total system cost: $2,380,546.

So let's see . . . so if you're willing to spend a mere $8 MILLION more per machine, you can get better performance out of Windows.

[vollmond]

Based on your numbers, you can spend roughly 39k per processor to get 700k transactions per minute, or you can spend 74k per processor to get 140k transactions per minute. Which option sounds better, especially if you need at least 500k tpm, today? Once the Red Hat/Oracle solution scales up to 272 processors, what will the cost per processor be, and how many transactions per minute will it be able to process? Would you rather be married to Microsoft or Oracle?

[Bush2000]

So let's see . . . so if you're willing to spend a mere $8 MILLION more per machine, you can get better performance out of Windows.

As someone else has already pointed out, you get more processing power for your dollar with the HP/Win2K/SQL combination.

[Mathlete]

This just in... Windows installed in a Ferrari wins more races that Linux installed in a Ford Escort.