There are other articles, but those are two that I remember. Google
is your friend.
Actually, the reason I asked is because I was wanting *your* answer.
And I figured it would be the anandtech articles. Their methodology
(and even terminology) was flawed, and those articles have been
thoroughly questioned if not debunked (Google is your friend). In
fact, whenever *anyone* says "Mac OS X Server sucks compared to
Linux", I've never seen anything but anandtech links.
We have no issues whatsoever with real-world application performance
on Xserve systems running Mac OS X Server for various tasks (apache,
apache2, mysql, php, tomcat, and so on) when compared with comparable
x86 systems running Linux (RHEL) or Sun systems running Solaris 10.
As for comparable x86 systems, Dell isn't even in the running. This
wasn't meant to generate a pissing match. I'm simply interested in
hearing real life benchmarking info from anyone who's actually done
it.
How is Dell not in the running for reliable enterprise server
systems? What are you comparing against that's so much cheaper than
Xserves?
