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Intel Benchmark Test: Linux Goes to 600,000
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...06/tc_nf/21680
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According to new tests performed by Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - news), the database performance of a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux (news - web sites) rivals that of servers running Windows or Unix (news - web sites) software. Since handling a database is a heavyweight computing chore, requiring an OS to perform a blizzard of transactions, this new benchmark score is considered a major coup for the open source OS