:) Here's some interesting test results concerning WARP SERVER, Windows NT
Server, and Novell Netware 4.1..


OS/2 Warp Server Single Processor Proves Superior As Notes Platform

The results of the NotesBench Certification test show that OS/2 Warp
Server, running on a single processor, has the ability to support 1,000
active clients using the Mail Workload scenario in NotesBench. The
benchmark test ran for more than nine hours during which time Warp Server
performed and executed flawlessly with Lotus Notes Release 4.1,
demonstrating its stability under the load of 1,000 active Mail users.

The average response time during the nine hour test period was 1.288
seconds.  Lotus Notes Release 4.1, running on OS/2 Warp, provides
substantial performance improvements, especially with OS/2 Warp Server
Advanced, which contains numerous additional supporting features such as
High-performance multitasking kernel, HPFS386 file system, and System
performance and tuning assistance.  The NotesBench test implementation,
methodology and performance results were certified by the independent
auditing firm KMDS Technical Associates, Inc.

The Lotus NoteBench test results are not surprising, considering the
results of a recent independent test conducted by PC Week Labs. The test
showed that OS/2 Warp Server running on a single processor outperforms both
Microsoft Windows NT Server and Novell Netware 4.1 running on four-way SMP-
(symmetric- multiprocessing) equipped servers.   According to the tests,
OS/2 Warp Server had a peak performance of 56M bps (mega-bits per second),
outperforming Windows NT Server by up to 26 percent in file and print
services.  Windows NT Server performed at a maximum of 44 M bps, while
Netware 4.1 placed last.  The testing was conducted with Ziff-Davis
Benchmark Operation's newly released NetBench 4.01, with file and print
services running on a 100M bps Fast Ethernet network.

Reference: http://www.austin.ibm.com/tradeshow/Shows/COMDEX/Spring96/
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