[ale] sorta [OT] IO vs clock cycles

[Cade Thacker]

Need a little bit of knowledge from you guys/gals. I got in a discussion
about running Java in an enterprise system, and one of the gentlemen I
repect a great deal said that Java would be much happier running on an NT
box with a very high clock cycle, then a Unix work horse from IBM. His
reasoning was that the Unix box is built(and build well) for IO intensive
tasks, DB type stuff, where NT is build to take advantage of clock speed.
Therefore the JVM would be happier on NT.

On the same topic, we always hear that the mainframe downstairs has less
horse power then our PCs, but yet the mainframe handles Millions of
transactions a second, and my PC dogs out running 5 browsers at once.
Please explain.

Where do you guys think linux would fall in this debate?

Thanks guys, and as always looking forward to your answers.


--cade

On Linux vs Windows
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