Compaq Computer Corp and Microsoft Corp are claiming improved performance levels for SAP AG’s R3 on SQL and NT after benchmarking 1,011 SAP sales and distribution system users on a Compaq Proliant 7000 with four Pentium Pro 200MHz processors, 3Gb RAM and 172Gb disk space; 13 ProLiant 5000 application servers, each with four 200MHz Pentium Pro’s, 1Gb RAM running R/3Release 3.OF, SQL Server 6.5 and NT Server 4.0. Additionally, there were nine dialog servers, three update servers and one message and queueing server.