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To: Bill Holtzman who wrote (38748)	2/28/2000 6:24:00 PM
From: TechMkt	Respond to of 74651

Windows 2000 Aces Transaction Processing Test (02/28/00, 5:15 p.m. ET) By Bernard Cole, EE Times Having gotten Windows 2000 out the door and into the hands of large OEM and corporate users, Microsoft, working with Giganet and Unisys, has released benchmark results for its new network-server operating system that emphasize its speed and cost-effectiveness. Running on an eight-way, Intel-based Unisys server and interconnected with a Giganet cLAN server farm network, a Windows 2000 Datacenter Server OS configuration using an SQL server database attained a TPC-C benchmark of more than 48,767 transactions per minute. The result, which Microsoft called a record, is the first audited measurement of online transaction-processing performance with the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server OS. The TPC-C benchmark measures performance and scalability of online transaction-processing systems. With those results in hand, Microsoft, Unisys, and Giganet say Intel-based servers, interconnected with Giganet cLAN, can surpass traditionalUnix/RISC systems in building more cost-effective enterprise environments. The Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Servers, linked via Giganet cLAN and equipped with eight 550-MHz Pentium III Xeon processors, supported 39,400 users and achieved 48,767.77 transactions per minute at a cost per transaction of $20.13. Audited test data is posted on the Transaction Processing Council website. TPC-C measures how many new-order transactions per minute a system generates while it is simultaneously executing four other transaction types (payments, order status updates, deliveries, and stock-level changes).