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INTRODUCTION
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Nearly 2 million servers shipped. More than 1 billion transactions processed in one day.
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Providing more than twice as many servers in the worldwide market than the nearest
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competitor in the first three quarters of 1997. This is the Compaq story as a leader in
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providing server integration excellence.
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COMPAQ SERVERS EQUAL INTEGRATION
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EXCELLENCE
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Using the latest industry-standard technology and its own innovations, Compaq integrates high
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scalability, high availability, integrated management solutions, and total cost of ownership into
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every server it builds.
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Scalability
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Compaq provides the industry's highest levels of scalability on x86 platforms. In May 1997,
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Compaq achieved an enterprise computing milestone of more than 1 billion transactions per day–
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far exceeding typical transaction loads of the world's largest commercial mainframe systems.
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This demonstration shows the scalability of Compaq's systems to meet and exceed the most
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demanding business requirements and validates Compaq's decision to bring new levels of
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scalability to large enterprises using industry-standard platforms.
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"Compaq is a leader in moving enterprise computing from yesterday's expensive, inflexible
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proprietary systems to today's cost-effective open environment," said Jim Allchin, Senior Vice
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President, Personal and Business Systems group, Microsoft. "Compaq is a key ally with proven
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expertise in developing and bringing to market scalable, high-performance solutions."
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Price:Performance
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Compaq's server architecture, designed from the ground up, balances processor and memory with
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the I/O architecture, which enables the company to uphold a tradition of leading
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price:performance. In October 1997, the Compaq ProLiant 7000 achieved the best transaction
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performance ever on a 4-processor Intel-based server running Windows NT on the TPC-C
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benchmark. The server performed 11,055 transactions per minute (tpmC) at just $39.25/tpmC
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with four 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors running Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Enterprise Edition
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and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition.
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The Compaq ProLiant 6500 has also set records. In September 1997, the ProLiant 6500,
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combined with Oracle 8.0.4, set stunning, record-breaking numbers for both query processing and
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price:performance in a decision support environment. The query processing number of 869.4
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QppD raised the bar by an amazing 64 percent over the previous Windows NT record. The
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price:performance ratio number of $892.23 per QphD was below the $1,000 barrier for the first
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time, clearly making the Compaq/Oracle combination the most cost-effective Windows NT
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solution available. Most recently, the ProLiant 6500 was used in a record-setting 6-node cluster
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configuration with Tandem's ServerNet interconnect technology to achieve 27,383tpmC at
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$72/tpmC.
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