The company is backing one of its fault-tolerant servers with a $100,000 guarantee that the system will not crash when running Microsoft's Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Stratus announced Monday. Under the terms of the "Perfect Performance" program, Stratus will shell out the cash to any customer who experiences unplanned downtime from an operating system or hardware failure on its ftServer 6500 product, said James Gargan, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Stratus.

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