RE: Processor speed

[Dave_Dahlstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't want to get into a Domino Benchmarking discussion as this is not the
place,  but Domino is not a commercial transaction application,  it is a
Workgroup application that we use to Electronically streamline all incoming and
outgoing communication for the company.  The whole exercise was to find what
AS/400 would handle our current Domino Workflow application that we run our
business on.  Creation of SOR,PO and more,  Email creation and deletion,
attachments and so on.  Everything that we do using Domino had to be re-created.
We had 25 Users doing a little workload,  25 users doing a Medium and 25 users
doing Heavy work.  In the Client Server world, End user response times are
criticall and this was our benchmark.  In order for an AS/400 to achieve the
same End User response times (ie opening Database, opening Documents,  sending
E-mail's with Attachments,  refreshing the screen, submitting SOR's,PO's) we
needed a 4 way AS/400, adding more memory and more disks made little difference,
but I agree that when the Workload increases the AS/400 Scalability would knock
NT off the shelf,  this is why the AS/400 is the Ideal platform for Domino to
run on,  but at what Cost?


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