Cheryl
Perhaps you are just using old data. NT's scalability has increased 8 fold in the past 36 months. Companies such as Boeing, Chicago Stock Exchange, Compaq, Dow Chemical, Fidelity, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Texaco, Saturn, etc. rely on Windows NT Server-based systems to support their most demanding computational, transaction, and I/O intensive applications.
Look at independent testing by the Tranactional Processing Council tpc.org . Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition with Tandem ServerNet Cluster software delivered 27,383 transactions per minute at a cost of $72 per tpmC. A Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 6000 with 24 250-MHz UltraSPARC microprocessors, which delivers only 13 percent higher performance, but at a 50 percent higher cost per transaction.
The Standards Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)is an accepted World Wide Web server benchmark for measuring basic Web server performance. Their data on SpecWEB96 is at spec.org . For example, Third Quarter '98 SPECweb96 results report 3,151 pages access on a Aquanta QS/2 from Unisys running IIS 4.0 on Windows NT Server 4.0. The best results of 2,906 pages accessed were posted by Sun Microsystems were in the Third Quarter '97 SPECweb96 on a Ultra Enterprise 450 with Sun Web Server 1.0.
You'll find similar results at Ziff Davis Benchmark Operation's
ServerBench and any hardware vendors SAP competency center with the the Sales and Distribution ERP benchmark. NT scales and delivers the best price performance in the industry.
As for Netware, look at the number of hardware vendors that submit results on Netware to the TPC for example. None, Zero, Nada. Too embarassing, I guess.
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