Compaq ProLiant 5500 Posts Record-Setting SAP SD Performance for Intel-based Systems Running Oracle Database and Microsoft Windows NT Server

Business Wire, March 10, 1998

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1998--Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ), the world's leading PC server vendor, today announced that the Compaq ProLiant 5500 server set unprecedented performance records for processing the SAP Standard Sales and Distribution Benchmark (SD Benchmark). The record-setting results for the SD Benchmark represent the best per-processor scalability ever achieved on an Intel-based system, the best performance under Oracle and Windows NT Server, and the best four-processor performance under Windows NT Server. With these results, Compaq continues to demonstrate its leadership in providing industry-standard systems for deployment of SAP's R/3 on Windows NT.

For more details on this and other Compaq ProLiant 5500 benchmarks, please visit Compaq's web site at: www.compaq.com/solutions/enterprise/busapp-sapag-performance.html

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