BAPCo Debuts SYSmark 2000 -- The First Benchmarking Software Featuring Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity Workloads for Computers Running Windows 2000.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1999-- The Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo(R)), a non-profit consortium of leading computer industry publications, independent testing labs, PC hardware manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and software publishers announces the release of SYSmark(R) 2000. SYSmark 2000 will extend BAPCo's leadership in industry standard benchmarks by providing an application-based benchmark that reflects today's leading edge software applications for Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. SYSmark 2000 will support all Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. : Windows 2000, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows 95. SYSmark 2000 is the first product being introduced under the newly formed strategic alliance between BAPCo and MadOnion.com. MadOnion.com, a leading provider of web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and e-commerce solutions, will provide marketing support and distribution for SYSmark 2000. The advantage of using SYSmark 2000 lies in the strength of its workloads, which reflects actual usage of real applications within the new computing computing - computer paradigms. To define the benchmark workload BAPCo, with the help of several Fortune 500 corporations, identified new application areas and benchmarking methodologies that address new evaluation and characterization requirements of the industry. In addition, BAPCo conducted research to understand the consumer PC segment trends in 1999. These efforts led to the development of comprehensive and scientifically designed workloads for leading edge applications covering a wide range of Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity applications. SYSmark 2000, with extensive validation across multiple hardware and software configurations, helps ensure consistent and reliable performance results. Moreover, BAPCo's benchmarks are cooperatively designed and developed by top performance engineers from a wide cross-section of industry-leading publications, testing labs, PC manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, and software developers. -0-
SYSmark 2000 can be used by:
-- PC OEM's, hardware and software developers, MIS departments,
system integrators, publications, testing labs, Fortune 500
companies, and end-users interested in measuring and/or comparing
PC performance based on real applications.
-- Information technologists and others to accurately forecast
present and future desktop computing needs.
Key SYSmark 2000 features and benefits include the following:
-- A robust set of twelve application benchmarks covering a wide
range of Intent Content Creation and Productivity application
categories.
-- Internet Features: Applications use popular Internet features in
the benchmark.
-- Supporting multiple operating systems: Supports all Microsoft
Windows operating systems, including: Windows 2000, Windows 98,
Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0.
-- Non-U.S. English operating system support: Supports most European
Microsoft Windows Operating systems, including Dutch, French,
Finnish, German, Italian, and Spanish.
-- Standardized testing through an automated point-and-click
Benchmark Manager with reporting guidelines to ensure reliable,
repeatable results.
-- Extensive validation across multiple hardware and software
configurations to ensure consistent and reliable results.
-- Ability to collect and store performance data for user-specified
projects; ability to compare user results with a wide range of
vendor and testing lab results available publicly on BAPCo's web
site: www.bapco.com.
-- Automated generation of BAPCo's Full Disclosure Report (FDR) for
ensuring consistent reporting of results.
-0- The SYSmark 2000 incorporates the following leading edge Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity applications: Internet Content Creation MetaCreations Bryce(R) 4, Avid(1) Elastic Reality(R) 3.1, Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. (R) 5.5, Adobe Premiere(R) 5.1, and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media Encoder A hardware device or software that assigns a code to represent data. See encode. 1. (algorithm, hardware) encoder - Any program, circuit or algorithm which encodes. Example usages: "MPEG encoder", "NTSC encoder", "RealAudio encoder". 2. 4.0. Office Productivity Corel CorelDRAW(R) 9.0, Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. 2000, Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R) Preferred 4.0, Netscape Communicator An earlier suite of Web browsing and groupware tools from Netscape that were packaged as a bundle starting with Navigator 4.0. Communicator refers to any Netscape Navigator product with a version number less than 6.0. (R) 4.61, Corel Paradox See Paradox. (R) 9.0, Microsoft PowerPoint(R) 2000, and Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. 2000. SYSmark 2000 is available for $99.95 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . Please visit www.bapco.com or www.MadOnion.com to order SYSmark 2000. The benchmark was developed and is fully supported by the current BAPCo membership. For a list of members please visit www.bapco.com. (1) NOTE: BAPCo, and SYSmark are registered trademarks of The Business Applications Performance Corporation. MadOnion.com(TM) is the trademark of MadOnion.com formerly Futuremark Corporation, Ltd. All other names mentioned are trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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