Over half of new SAP sales are on Windows-based systems. Over one-third of existing SAP sites run on Windows platforms. SAP has over 10,000 customers running on Windows platforms. The SPECweb96 benchmarks have also shown Windows platforms to be capable of better Web performance than Sun platforms. In reality, Sun does not ship any products with 100s of processors.
Most customers use static partitions with multiple operating system images.
Sun's claims for extreme scalability of its UE 10000 product have, for at least one highly visible customer, proven to be unsupportable. For details read this article in The Register, Sun's Oz super computer goes horribly pear shaped . All rights reserved. Terms of use.