Maximum ports

[vi]

I was interested to know how many ports can be opened on Fedora Linux FC4. I 
did an experiment. I wrote a server program that accepts TCP connections and 
a client program that keeps connecting to the Server port.

Guess the results? The server program can have about 1020 port maximum only. 
Is that not low for a server expected to be used by millions. Windows XP 
professional with SP2 can open about 3000 ports maximum.

Regards...........vi.