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  File Ser-
vices Bench-
mark 15%
Net-
work Bench-
mark 10%
Mgmt Inter-
face 5%
Ser-
ver Mon-
itor-
ing 5%
Cli-
ent Ad-
min 5%
File/ Print Mgmt 5% Stor-
age Mgmt 5%
Scal-
abil-
ity 20%
Sec-
ur-
ity 10%
Sta-
bil-
ity and fault tol-
er-
ance 10%
In-
stall. 5%
Docs. 5% T
O
T
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L
Micro-
soft Win-
dows 2000
5.6 8.4 8 8 7 8 9 8 9 8 9 7 7.78
No-
vell Net-
Ware 5.1
9.4 9.6 8 7 8 8 7 6 8 6 7 8 7.63
Red Hat Linux 6.1 6.7 7.4 5 6 4 5 6 6 7 7 8 6 6.35
SCO Unix-
Ware 7.1.1
3.3 7.5 7 6 6 6 5 8 5 7 3 8 6.10

Note: Individual category scores are based on a scale of 1-10. Percentages are the weight given each category in determining the total score. The World Class Award goes to products that earn 9.0 or above on our scorecard.

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