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Linux And Windows NT Essay, Research Paper

Forget the browser wars. This year’s big nerd battle is the server shootout

between Linux and Windows NT – and it’s not just a bunch of geeks

nit-picking. While both offer more affordable platforms for Web service than in

the past, Linux and NT are polar opposites on almost every other level. They

look different, run differently, support different software, and cost money in

different places. So far though, most press coverage of the Linux-NT debate has

focused on the competing business models, and there’s been little helpful

information for deciding which OS to use. At the other end of the coverage

spectrum, technical comparisons usually stick to performance tests, churning out

reams of numbers from the lab and missing the big picture of owning and

operating a Web site. The most obvious difference between NT and Linux is that

NT attempts to bring the familiar Windows graphical user interface to a server

environment. Ideally, a Webmaster could maintain NT (and its bundled Web server,

Microsoft Internet Information Server, aka IIS) primarily by pointing and

clicking. NT also comes bundled with a singular set of Microsoft site

development tools. Linux, on the other hand, builds from the long, varied

tradition of Unix command-line culture. It can be harder (or at least more

daunting) to learn Unix from scratch than it is to learn a Windows system, but

Unix users who get over the hump of the initial learning curve rarely express

happiness over trying to do the same work in a Windows environment. That’s the

"Windows rage" you observe whenever your local sysadmin (System

Administrator) has to get up from his Linux workstation to fix your PC. If

there’s one area where NT stands out over Linux, it’s the willingness of

third-party software vendors to develop versions of their software for it.

Ad-serving software, search engines, databases, application servers, and

e-commerce shopping carts are almost certain to come in NT versions, whereas

big-name vendors such as Oracle, Sun, and IBM have just begun to commit to

Linux. A Windows NT license costs about $300. A Linux license costs nothing. Not

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