the point I was trying to make was not that a NT Box was faster than an AS/400, but that the AS/400 had been juggling so much stuff that moving part of it over to a NT Box that did nothing but run a SQL Server made the database run faster.

We had AP/AR people upset because it took about 6 to 15 minutes to find an invoice on the AS/400 database. So then it took about 15 to 30 seconds on the SQL Server. The NT SQL Server did not have a ton of stuff running in the background as the AS/400 did. I doubt the NT Server could handle a load like that. It was only a 486, way back when we put NT 3.1 on it. It also ran a Token Ring network card at 4mbs. Remember Token Ring? :)