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To: rudedog who wrote (85320)	10/6/2000 6:55:10 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Friday October 6, 6:28 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation Compaq ProLiant 8500 Clusters Break World Record for TPC-C Performance With 505,302 Transactions Per Minute New Information on Compaq Web Site HOUSTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ - news) today announced that a Compaq ProLiant(TM) 8500 Pentium III Xeon 700 MHz server cluster has achieved a new world record for TPC-C performance with the publication of a new TPC-C benchmark result. The 24-node ProLiant 8500 cluster, running Microsoft SQL® Server 2000 and Microsoft Windows® 2000 Advanced Server, achieved a record-breaking 505,302.77 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance figure of $20.68/tpmC*. Significantly, not only does this represent the best-ever published TPC-C performance, it also provides price: performance (the cost per transaction) that is a third lower than Compaq's closest competitor. For more details on this benchmark, please visit Compaq's Web site at: compaq.com. ProLiant Customers Scale out for Performance and Growth While Maintaining Profitability The ProLiant 8500 cluster has again proven its ability to scale out to meet customers' growing performance and availability needs without increasing the cost of transactions, allowing current infrastructure to consistently scale to business growth. Compaq has anticipated the need for major increases in industry-standard performance and manageability to meet customers' e-business needs, and today delivers further proof of ProLiant capabilities with the 505,302 tpmC TPC-C benchmark. Company Background: Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. For more corporate information, see: compaq.com. This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially include: delays in the implementation of changes in delivery models, increased competitive environment and pricing pressures, delays in product rollout schedules, component shortages, slow acceptance for new form factors, employee retention, disruptions related to restructuring actions, the financial condition of resellers, delays in new systems implementation, operational inefficiencies related to sales cycles, equity investment volatility, and emerging market political or economic instability. Further information on the factors that could affect Compaq's financial results is included in Compaq's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including the latest Annual Report on form 10-K and the latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. System Availability Date: 11/30/2000. Hardware is available now. Total system cost $10,445,169. TPC data as of 10/6/00. SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation Email this story - View most popular stories emailed More Quotes and News: Compaq Computer Corp (NYSE:CPQ - news) Related News Categories: computer hardware, computers, internet