SharePoint List Scalability

Question

I am particularly interested in Document Libraries, but in terms of general SharePoint lists, can anyone answer the following...?

1. What is the maximum number of

Answer 1

The whitepaper I found most useful was linked from the resource posted by user mbowles above. The direct link is...

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=95450&clcid=0x409