REDMOND, Wash., March 20, 2001 — Inmar Enterprises and Lifeminders, two Microsoft® SQL Server™
2000 customers, are grand prize winners in The Winter Corporation Database Scalability Program 2000, providing further independent validation that Microsoft SQL Server 2000 can meet the demands of large, enterprise-scale businesses.
The Winter Corporation Database Scalability Program 2000 is an independent, worldwide program that analyzes the characteristics of the world’s largest databases and examines databases supporting the world’s largest workloads. These vast data repositories anchor e-commerce, business intelligence, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, resource management and other business-critical applications
The Winter Corporation prize is the latest of numerous awards SQL Server 2000 has won for its performance, scalability and impact on cost of ownership ( http://www.microsoft.com/sql/productinfo/tpc.htm ). Ready for the enterprise, SQL Server 2000 continues to lead among database products in many head-to-head comparisons ( http://www.microsoft.com/sql/productinfo/compare.htm ). Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is the complete database and analysis offering for rapidly delivering the next generation of scalable e-commerce, line-of-business and data warehousing solutions.
Interested parties may register for the live Web conference announcing The Winter Corporation’s grand prize winners, to be held March 27 at 1 p.m. EST, at http://www.wintercorp.com/ .
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