Real news: Solaris "beats" Linux

In my last post, I mentioned an article comparing Solaris and Windows performance. Many people who commented on that article (as well as myself) really wanted to see a comparison between Solaris and GNU/Linux. Well, that's just what the author did.

The overall result was that Solaris was faster than Linux, but it's a much more even matchup than it was with Windows. In many cases, Linux was non-negligibly faster. But we see that Solaris performs quite well, particularly in the multi-threaded benchmarks. Sweet.

My only question is: were they using ZFS?

So, Solaris outperforms Windows?

Is anybody really that surprised?

Although, it could be a little unfair to be using Sun hardware to benchmark Solaris and Windows. It's not that not legit, but Sun has the advantage of being able to coordinate their hardware and software teams to optimize one for the other, when appropriate.