Oracle Corporation announced record-setting results with Oracle Universal Data Server running SAP` s R/3 solution on the Sun Enterprise 10000 server (also known as Starfire and supporting an unmatched workload for R/3 of more than 6,030 SD (Sales & Distribution) benchmark users. This record-breaking result was achieved using four Sun Star fire servers, a Sun Enterprise 450 workgroup server and Sun RSM Array 2000 disks subsystems. At the same time, this result also beat the nearest main frame-based SAP benchmark, of IBM`s DB2 on a mainframe, by more than 83 percent. Recent analyst research shows that a Sun and Oracle solution hosting SAP R/3 can cost customers $6 million less than a comparable solution implemented on a mainframe with DB2 "Oracle is the database software of choice in 75 percent of SAP R/3 implementations world-wide, and this benchmark demonstrates just one reason why," said Ken Jacob`s, vice president of Data Server Marketing at Oracle. "More users at far lower cost with greater performance means better return on investment; the math is irrefutable." "Sun and Oracle continue to demonstrate significant performance and scalability advantages based on our SAP R/3 benchmarks," said Mark Tolliver, vice president of market development for Sun Microsystems Computer Company. "This should come as no surprise, given the number of performance records we`ve set on the Sun and Oracle platform. Sun`s SAP customers who run Oracle can benefit from real cost advantages over a mainframe in the initial investment and into the next century." "We are very pleased with the overall performance of SAP running on the Sun and Oracle platform," said Tarakam Peddada, director, World -wide Operations, Information Systems at Bay Networks, Incorporation "The reliability and scalability of the platform gives Bay the necessary competitive edge operationally. Over the past two years, we were able to scale the environment to meet the growing business needs-revenue growth, assimilating new business acquisitions and process re-engineering. Bay runs the entire $2.6B (U.S.) global business on a single Oracle database instance providing excellent integration among all the SAP functional modules." Benchmark Snapshot The SAP standard sales and distribution (SD) benchmark was performed with Four Starfire servers in a three-tier, client/server configuration. The record of 6,030 benchmark users was achieved with average dialogue response times of 1.93 seconds per transaction and record throughput of 1.82 million dialogue steps per hour. This is equivalent to 607,000 processed order line items per hour. Sun`s 64 CPU Sun Enterprise 10000 server with 54GB memory was used as The database server, running the Solaris operating environment with Oracle7 Server 7.3.3. For the database server, 33CPUs were used at 86 percent utilisation. The database was networked to three Enterprise 10000 application servers, which provided a combined total effective load of 186 CPUs, all running R/3 Release 3.1G. The three application servers were networked to the Starfire database server using the Sun Enterprise 450 work group server as the central instance server. Total storage was 5.7 terabytes (TB) using 23 Sun RSM Array 2000 disk subsystems with RAID 5. Bench marking tests were conducted at Sun`s Large Scale Computing Centre in Beaverton, Oregon.R/3 is one of the industry`s leading client/server business application solutions developed to assist companies with reducing costs and improve efficiency by linking core business processes across the enterprise. This benchmark fully complies with SAP `s issued benchmark regulations and was audited and certified by SAP. Further technical details are available from Sun Microsystems, Incorporation or SAP AG. Editors Note: Oracle Corporation is the world`s leading supplier of software for information management, and the world`s second largest software company. With annual revenues of more than $6.3 billion, the company offers its database, application server, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than 140 countries around the world. Oracle`s World Wide Web address is (URL) http://www.oracle.com/. Trademarks Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle7 is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks Of their respective owners. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Enterprise, Star fire and Sun RSM Array are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Incorporation in the United States and other countries. For industry research on this subject sees the Gartner Group report, "Choosing large centralised server application platforms: Dollars and Sense"
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