Samba 3 stomps Windows 2003

Pete Starzewski writes “NetBench shows Samba 3 is 2.5 times as fast as Win 2003 on identical hardware. The battle to replace aging NT4 servers is on.” Quote from story: “Tests by IT Week Labs indicate that the latest version of the open-source Samba file and print server software has widened the performance gap separating it from the commercial Windows alternative.”