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Midrange Systems 6/13 edition had an article which I quote from:

Microsoft's bid to challenge IBM in the enterprise serving community guides
 its Windows NT product squarely into territory currently dominated by
Unix and the AS/400. At the Scalability Day event in New York, Microsoft
and its major industry partners focused on Windows NT's ability to be all
servers to all people. S-Day promoted Microsoft's BackOffice family of
server applications as able to manage large enterprise applications such as
on-line banking systems, as well as large data warehouses and enterprise
mail systems supporting thousands of users.


"Any business of any size can now run its enterprise applications on
Microsoft software and industry-standard hardware," said Bill Gates,
chairman
and CEO of Microsoft. "Combining enterprise-class scalability with
PC-industry volume economics will radically shape the enterprise market.
The
ongoing R&D investments made by Microsoft and the industry will provide our
 customers still greater levels of scalability, interoperability,
availability
and manageability in the future."

However, Gates acknowledged that his company still uses a pair of AS/400s.

One industry analyst viewed S-Day as an excellent way for Microsoft to
promote its NT product without providing a lot of substance. "[Microsoft]
did a good job of [public relations], and a poor job of proving the
product," says Tom Bittman, research director at the Gartner Group
(Stamford,
Conn.). "The two most prominent factors that keep NT from replacing the
AS/400 and Unix in the enterprise space are scalability and high
availability.
And those are the two issues they're attacking."

Numbers figured prominently at S-Day, as Microsoft claimed Windows NT has
the capability to handle 1 billion transactions per day, or roughly
one-fourth of the volume handled by the world's entire banking industry.
According to Bittman, Microsoft attempted to back this claim at the event
using 20 databases, each handling a portion of the transactions, rather
than a single, partitioned relational database. "This just proved that if
you really
have a need for a large, single and transactional database, you can't do it
 on a single NT system," he says.


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