To compare the performance of the latest Linux software tuned by Linux Experts to Windows NT Server 4.0 in an open environment on the same computer. We hope the Linux, Apache, and Samba communities will take our tests as a wake-up call. What you are waking to is the sound of the enterprise calling. If you want your products to have wide acceptance in the enterprise, you need to do more than give away the source code.
Performance is only one aspect of an enterprise purchasing decision.
In many cases it may not be the most important one. However, poor performance can get your product thrown out of the decision process early. Excel at it rather than ignoring it. They used NetBench and WebBench. Microsoft hired Mindcraft to run the same benchmarks on an enterprise-class server.