[plug] Windows needs 2x the CPUs to get 17% more TPC performance than Linux?

[Leon Brooks]

    http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-1013764.html

...and reading the news.com.com.com.com.com article carefully:

    In laboratory tests, the company found that a Linux-based
    32-processor Itanium server is nearing the ability to
    perform 600,000 transactions per minute, a score that puts
    it near today's most powerful Windows and Unix servers.

    [...]

    The current top score on the Transaction Processing
    Performance Council's TPC-C is 707,000 transactions per
    minute, held by a Helwett-Packard Windows server using
    [64 of] the forthcoming Itanium 2 6M processor.

I find it interesting that *none* of the news articles mention the 
disparity in processing power, in fact you have to scrabble around a 
fair bit until you see it:

    http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-1008943.html

    Hewlett-Packard has reclaimed its top rank from IBM on a
    server speed test using a machine with 64 Itanium 2 6M
    processors and Microsoft Windows.

Take care to point this out in talkbacks anywhere you see it today. (-:

Cheers; Leon