Energy Research Clearing House host NT 'Saints' (January 1998)

ERCH in collaboration with Resource 2000hosted a meeting this month to 'explore an industry wide proposal aimed atstandardizing enterprise solutions onto a single operating system'.

The SAINTS Project - Strategic Analysis and Implementation of NT Solutions is designed to "facilitate the migration and optimization of Enterprise class applications to Windows NT based servers and clusters". SAINTS is sanctioned and endorsed by Microsoft. The project focus is on high performance enterprise solutions for the Energy Industry. Issues to be investigated include; scalability, compute performance, data management and I/O. Comparisons between UNIX systems and NT systems will be made evaluating throughput as well as price performance. Cost to corporate sponsors will be $25,000.00 per year. More info from sbennett@erch.org or Randy Premont at www.r2kgroup.com.