Catch my Point

Recently I had an opportunity to deploy Microsoft CRM with Selentica add on to integrate with SharePoint, which created thousands of Site Collections. Initially I was little hesitant to create so many Site Collections especially after reading Microsoft Guidelines for Performance (image below).

There was really no Performance change after this deployment (We have been checking performance for a month now) may be because of my 5 Server farm, but Site Collections do give more flexibility managing content databases and security compared to sites.