Network World, 11/13/00
The Compaq ProLiant 6400, a rack-mountable four-way server, earned
the award in the enterprise server category with an overall score of 9.3.
Test Alliance member John Bass, who conducts all of our server testing,
says the combination of strong performance, manageability and serviceability
features, and small form factor, made the ProLiant 6400 a winner all around.
The server beat out two other Compaq boxes and one each from Dell and
Hewlett-Packard for this award.
Best of the Tests Award winner:
ProLiant 6400
Company: Compaq, www.compaq.comDate reviewed: Jan. 17
Score: 9.3
Score above the category mean: .46
Reviewer's comment:"The ProLiant 6400 has the best combination
of performance and features of any enterprise-class server we have tested
so far."
- John Bass, technical director, Centennial Networking Lab, North Carolina
State University