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To: paul who wrote (3921)	12/31/1997 2:05:00 PM
From: Patrick Gainer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

"So why havent we seen NT scale effectively beyond 2 processors?" First off, don't mistake me for some sort of NT champion. I merely made an observation that a company basing its next 5 years of computer purchases on whether or not a system "scales" is dangerous. As my argument, I used Solaris, which, 5 years ago, didn't scale. As for NT scaling, I have seen many different independent TPC-C numbers using NT on 8-way machines and the results are very good. So I would argue we have seen NT scale effectively beyond 2 processors and if you didn't notice, you weren't paying attention. Pat