The paradox comes from the fact that the Mindcraft NT-Linux
benchmark measures situations that are almost never occurring in real
life, and may concern at most a few computers in the world.
Look at
http://cs.alfred.edu/~lansdoct/mstest.html
explaining how irrelevant the benchmark is.
On the other hand a more realistic Web server benchmark suite
was done by the German C't magazin. As expected for more realistic
cases Linux looks much better:
http://www.heise.de/ct/english//99/13/186-1/
My guess is that NT pro people studied carefully Linux to find
a weak point on which NT is superior, and then invent a benchmark to
claim general superiority. They forgot to check whether the
effective superiority corresponds to a widespread need.
Daniel
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