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NetWare Web Server Top Performer in Independent Tests Outside Consulting Firms Find NetWare Web Server Faster than Microsoft IIS and Netscape Communications Server Running on Windows NT BrainShare Europe, Nice, France -- April 22, 1996 -- Novell's NetWare Web Server outperforms Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) and Netscape's Communications Server running on Microsoft Windows NT, in some cases by up to 400 percent, according to tests conducted by the independent testing firms, Shiloh Consulting and Haynes& Company. "This means the NetWare Web Server can handle more traffic than the competition, allowing users a comfortable margin for peak loads today and providing them the maximum room for growth tomorrow," said Mark Griffiths, director of product marketing at Novell's Internet Commerce Division. The three products were tested for throughput, response time (latency) and connections per second in their response to HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and proprietary Application Programming Interface (API) requests. When serving straight HTML to 128 clients, the NetWare Web Server attained a throughput rate of 16.00 megabits per second versus 13.77 for IIS and 4.20 for Netscape. That is nearly 400 percent faster than Netscape's Communications Server, the current industry leader. As the number of clients making requests increased, the NetWare Web Server increased its performance advantage over the competition. Even when the NetWare Web Server was handling many more HTML requests than the other servers, its average response time was significantly less than the other two products. Additionally, Novell's Local and Remote CGIs overwhelmingly outperformed the CGI interfaces on either of the other two platforms and was competitive with the proprietary APIs. For more information about NetWare Web Server and the performance tests, visit Novell's home page at http:www.novell.com.
Testing Methodology The tests were conducted in March using the NetWare Web Server 2.1, Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.0 and Netscape's Communications Server 1.12. The NetWare Web Server was tested on the NetWare 4.1 operating sys tem. Microsoft's and Netscape's Web servers were tested on a Windows NT server, version 3.51 with Service Pack 3 installed. The tests used the WebStone release version 1.1 server benchmark, which is regarded as the industry standard for measuring Web server performance. WebStone runs exclusively on clients, makes all measurements from the point of view of the clients, and is independent of the server software. Thus, WebStone is suitable for testing the performance of any Web server, regardless of architecture, and for testing all combinations of Web servers, operating systems, network operating systems and hardware.
NetWare Web Server NetWare Web Server turns NetWare 4.x servers into World Wide Web sites. Users can install and configure the software and create a Web page in less than 10 minutes on an existing NetWare 4.x server. NetWare Web Servers also lets the user publish documents on both the Internet and intranets, without learning UNIX® or complex Web authoring tools. NetWare Web Server utilizes Novell Directory Services and other NetWare services for seamless integration into customers' existing LANs and intranets. NetWare Web Server comes with NetWare Runtime, a fully operational version of NetWare that allows customers to cost-effectively deploy the NetWare Web Server in a dedicated server, if desired. Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL), is the world's leading networking software provider. Novell software provides the infrastructure for a networked world, enabling our customers to connect with other people and the information they need, anytime and anyplace. Novell partners with other technology and market leaders to help customers make networks a part of their everyday lives. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks; and NetWare 4 is a trademark of Novell, Inc. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
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