Hot on the heels of the AcerAltos 19000 Pro4 setting of a new world record for price/performance during tests conducted by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), the quad Pentium Pro server has passed the stringent tests required to become SAP R/3 certified. According to Brian Bogaard, general manager: marketing and product services at Acer Africa, the tests prove that the AcerAltos 19000 Pro4 fulfils the needs of the corporate and enterprise customers by offering uncompromising fault tolerance, processing power and reliability, as well the compatibility and capability to run business critical database applications. "SAP R/3 holds the lion`s share of this market, and the certification test which took place at the SAP AG commissioned Windows NT Competence Center (R/3 NTC) at iXOS Software AG in Germany, proves that the AcerAltos 19000Pro4 runs SAP R/3 perfectly," he says. The AcerAltos 19000Pro4 passed the rigorous testing of all 993 NT-compatible SAP programs and the stress of a heavy system load. Benchmark tests were also performed on the server to profile the system response time under various user loads. "Acer is committed to supporting corporate and enterprise environments. The certification of the AcerAltos 19000Pro4 on SAP R/3, as well as its recent breaking of the TPC-C price/performance world record, marks Acer as a outstanding enterprise solution provider," Bogaard adds. TCP, the organisation which creates and maintains the industry-standard benchmarks to measure server performance in database and web applications, found the AcerAltos 19000Pro 4 delivered the best TPC-C price/performance of the five internationally branded, `big name` similarly configured machines tested. The TCP-C benchmark measures the performance of database servers - along with clients - in an On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment. Running Microsoft Windows NT/SQL Server, the AcerAltos 19000Pro4 produced unprecedented throughput of 11 072,07 transactions per minute, setting a new world record for this class of server.
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