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To: Eric Bowen who wrote (63854)	6/22/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: Ram Seetharaman	Respond to of 97611

Tuesday June 22, 1:01 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Compaq Achieves Outstanding 8-Processor ProLiant Server Benchmark Results HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999--Driving standards-based computing further into the data center, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ - news) today announced the first benchmark results for its upcoming 8-way Profusion(tm) based ProLiant servers. Compaq co-developed the new 8-way Profusion Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) architecture with Intel to provide reliable ProLiant servers with unprecedented performance and scalability. The results announced today represent the highest numbers ever achieved on standards-based servers. A configuration utilizing the 8-way Profusion-based ProLiant 8000 and ProLiant 8500 servers, delivered an 88 percent increase in performance over a comparable 4-processor system deploying SQL EE 7.0 sp1 on Windows NT Server EE 4.0 sp4 on the SAP R/3 4.0b benchmark. The 8-way Profusion-based ProLiant 8500 yielded an impressive 146 percent increase in performance over a comparable 4-processor system running Microsoft Windows Terminal Server running on Windows NT Server 4.0 by handling 160 heavy users. The 8-way Profusion-based ProLiant server also delivered a 61 percent increase in performance over 4-processor configurations, running ServerBench 4.02 on Novell NetWare 5.0(1). The balanced nature of the Profusion architecture provides breakthrough linear scalability for 8 processor servers running Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000, NetWare and SCO Unixware. This scalability, together with the exceptional performance of the memory and I/O subsystems, enables systems to maximize the productivity of the most demanding enterprise applications such as e-commerce, data warehousing, web serving, terminal serving and electronic mail. For more information about the new Profusion architecture and Compaq's 8-processor server product strategy visit compaq.com. Company Background: Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a Fortune Global 100 company. Compaq is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. For more corporate information, see: compaq.com. (1) Test disclosure document available at: compaq.com . This test was performed without independent verification by ZD. ZD makes no representations or warranties as to the results of this test. Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contact: Compaq Computer Corporation Ted Bockius, 281-927-8311 ted.bockius@compaq.com or Shandwick International Karen Marcus, 617-351-4103 kmarcus@shandwick.com