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PR: Warp Server performance for NT/95 clients vs Microsoft's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Sun Aug 24 05:57:49 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 24 Aug 1997 02:08:00 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-to: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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OS/2 Warp Server Performance Comparisons
File and print sharing have long been an important measure of Network
Operating System (NOS) performance. Various industry publications and
independent test labs have made comparisons between the industry leaders in
the NOS marketplace using benchmarks that simulate LAN user activities.
IBM recently commissioned Workstation Laboratories to conduct a file serving
performance test using the industry standard file server benchmark *NetBench
(owned by Ziff-Davis). The Workstation Laboratories tests comparing Microsoft
Windows NT Server 4.0 and IBM OS/2 Warp Server showed that OS/2 Warp Server
file and application sharing was better than NT 4.0 on the uni-processor and
better-to-equivalent on the multi-processor version when running NetBench 4.01
from Windows 95 clients.
For more information on this topic, see the complete white paper at
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/performance/wslcomp.htm. The paper also
includes an appendix with performance comparisons for loading shared Windows
95 applications from OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 and NT Server 4.0. OS/2 Warp Server
performed equal or better in all nine test cases.
* NetBench is a registered trademark of Ziff-Davis Labs, Inc.
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