Is there any good performance documentation for my boss

[Melinda Gates]

I'm a new newbie here. Thanks for the info guys.

A little background on my question: My boss and I have decided that we've taken it up the poop-chute from those bastards in Redmond one time too many. We'd like to put up a departmental intranet site using Linux and Apache and if that works,see if we can use the technology elsewhere in the company (especailly to get rid of the flaming turd that M$ calls IIS). She has asked me to get appropriate hardware to run the site on. Now, she is used to NT and is convinced that no production site could possibly run on less than a 2x pentium 1.3 Ghz, 1 Gb. ram, and 1/2 Terabyte Raid 5.

So, is there some credible documentation that would explain to her that we already have appropriate hardware? I'd love to see Linux and Apache on an old workstation beat the crap out of a high-end NT server!

TIA

[snyk]

Depends on Single vs dual proc etc..Links to some examples
null (http://null)Zdnet (http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2283480,00.html)

A more indepth analysis (http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/186-1/)

Pretty much a dead heat with normal optimizations ( Linux can be hard for a new Admin to finetune).

The real arguement could be made on the security front thou..

[slacker_x]

will the intranet site see a lot of traffic?

Here's what you do:

get your boss to order that expensive (yet sweet) computer. Dump the hardware from your computer into the web server and keep the server for yourself

hehe

If you want to keep your job, you might want to start with a search on google for:
apache IIS benchmark
or something similar