Compaq ProLiant 7000 Posts Industry's Best Performance for Microsoft Exchange; Highest Ever MAPI Results for Two- and Four-Processor Systems

Business Wire, March 4, 1999

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1999--Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ), the world's leading PC server vendor, today announced that it has set world-record Exchange Server performance numbers on the Compaq ProLiant 7000 server by achieving the highest-ever Microsoft Messaging Application Program Interface (MAPI) Messaging Benchmark (MMB) on any two-processor or four-processor platform:

-- The highest MMB using four 450 MHz Intel Pentium II Xeon processors (21,500 MMB)

-- The highest MMB using two 450 MHz Intel Pentium II Xeon processors (14,600 MMB)

MMB measures throughput in terms of a specific profile of user actions, executed over an 8-hour day.

Compaq leads the industry in deploying and managing Microsoft Exchange on its products by conducting extensive integration engineering and capacity planning. Not only does Compaq provide world-class, highly scalable, highly available server platforms, but also the experience and services necessary for successful deployments of messaging and collaborative applications.

For more information about the benchmark results and their relationship to real-world deployment, please visit the following Compaq Web site: http://www.compaq.com/solutions/messaging/performance

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