BENCHMARKS DEMONSTRATE POWER OF COMPAQ PROLIANT SERVER RUNNING WIN 2000 & SQL SERVER 2000.Delivering everything customers need to build a Windows 2000 infrastructure optimized for e-business, Compaq Computer Corp. released benchmarks that show the power of Compaq Proliant servers running 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. 2000 and SQL Server 2000. Industry-leading benchmarks for Windows 2000 were recorded on Compaq's ProLiant Server line running a broad range of applications. These benchmarks demonstrate that customers can deploy their e-business applications running Windows 2000 on Compaq ProLiant Servers. According to Compaq spokespersons one of the benchmarks, achieved on a "shared-nothing" cluster of 12 ProLiant 8500 servers running Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, sets a new TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. record -- for any hardware, operating system or database -- of 227,079.15 transactions per minute at $19.12 per tpmC. This represents the first time an industry-standard system has out-performed all other TPC-C benchmarks. In fact, the Compaq ProLiant 8500 cluster demonstarted nearly twice the performance of the top competitors including SUN Enterprise 6500 and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RS6000. The bencharmsk used are industry-standard tests performed on Compaq ProLiant Servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, as well as Compaq/Windows 2000 server platforms running Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 2000, Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) software, messaging software, e-commerce software and Terminal Server from multiple Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Some of the applications tested include: Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SAP ERP software, PeopleSoft ERP software, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft e-commerce software, and Microsoft Terminal Server. |
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