| • | The Financial Impact of Operational Process Improvements within a Microsoft Windows Environment (PDF)
Forrester (June 2006): Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by using key components of Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) to improve the reliability of their Microsoft Windows Server-based systems and to drive operational process efficiency and effectiveness within a Microsoft-centric environment. This study illustrates the ways that organizations have achieved value through changes to their existing operational and support processes, maximizing the benefit of their existing Microsoft investment and providing greater reliability and availability of Windows-based systems. |
| • | Windows Server Reliability
Forrester (May 2005): See what actual Microsoft customers say about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 reliability. In this study, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey more than 500 North American companies to gauge their level of satisfaction with the reliability of Windows Server. "About three-quarters of the respondents run mission-critical applications on Windows Server," finds the survey, "and most firms are satisfied with Windows Server overall." |
| • | Comparing Operational Costs of Windows Server Operating Systems
IDC (March 2005): Across a broad range of workloads and customers, Windows Server 2003 provides a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Windows 2000 Server and a significantly lower TCO than Windows NT Server. Based on their independent market research, IDC summarized their findings by stating "The trend is clear: with each successive OS platform, Microsoft has added functionality and increased overall reliability, performance, and ease of operation. All these factors tend to drive down the costs of operation and create a more efficient and productive environment." |
| • | Windows Server Platform Reaches Maturity
DH Brown (April 2003): With Windows Server 2003, Microsoft takes a major step forward in the implementation of its vision for networks of PC clients and servers that can be treated as a single information system. For the first time, Microsoft now runs the same code base on its server, high-end and business desktops, and consumer desktops, and the .NET runtime and framework provides a development architecture that is optimized to populate this infrastructure with applications and Web services. |
| • | New TPC-C Benchmark Results Prove Major Gains in Industry Standard Server Performance
DH Brown (November 5, 2002): Buoyed by improvements in the Windows operating system, Intel processor-based servers are increasingly found in larger symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) deployments. Led by Unisys with its ES7000 server, new players like HP, IBM, and NEC are putting their muscle behind single-system scalability for Windows servers. Windows Server 2003 promises to bring even more scalability with larger memory support, as well as other enhancements. |
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