Speed difference between Windows 2003 Server and Novell Server

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:13:19AM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> Currently, building a particular index on our Novell network can take 1 
> hour.  Same index on a Linux server takes 5 minutes.  Where could we 
> expect the speed of a Windows2003 fall in that range?
> 
> I know I did not post version numbers and a lot of hardware details, but 
> we are wanting some assurance that it will be faster than Novell's 
> speeds.  This also includes a change to a Domain server setup.  We are 
> hoping to get speeds closer to the Linux speeds.

Obligatory question: why not just move it to Linux?

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