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To: Tony Viola who wrote (7785)	2/17/1998 3:36:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>>>>>>>>>>> Four happens to be the number of Pentium Pros you could get in an SMP configuration on an Intel motherboard. That's soon to go up with Deschutes. For clusterability, check out this link: usenix.org. Click on Scale UP and OUT >>>>>>>>>>> Sorry to say this - I personally think that the information in the link is contrived and BS. NT scales better than Solaris for a SQL server on NT and Sybase on Solaris. Benchmarks are kind of weird unless you look at the exact hardware and software configurations. Digital published a benchmark boasting the best results for Oracle (don't remember what software it was) running on DEC Unix on Alpha. It seems the entire database was on a 1G RAM. They compared it with Solaris where the database was loaded from the disk. Cool eh? Truth is that Compaq has to build those servers for Microsoft and their server technology is years behind SUN, IBM and HP. Also, you have to make your OS scalable - not by changing a register value to say whether it's a workstation or not. It's going to take a long long time before NT gets mission critical. Personally I wouldn't board a flight if I knew that the control system ran on NT. Cheers, Babu