Thanks RMD. "Remember Scalability Day? It was May 20, 1997 in New York and it was intended, via an elaborate demonstration at the Sheraton Hotel, to show that Windows had become a bonafide scale-up operating system, capable of handling a billion transactions a day and more. But the carefully configured mega systems on display that day, assembled with all the internal know-how available to Microsoft and its hardware partners, were unusual if not impossible to find in real-world data centers. Now, we're beginning to hear about super-size Windows systems that live up to the high expectations set seven years ago. They include a 27-Terabyte data warehouse, a heavily trafficked Web site, and some of the world's most widely used financial applications.
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