Oracle Corp., the world`s largest enterprise software company, today announced that in recent ECperf benchmarks, Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) achieved the industry`s best-ever performance result and is the industry`s new price/performance leader. The performance result for Oracle9iAS is 56 percent better than IBM WebSphere, and 35 percent better than BEA WebLogic, when comparing with the best ECperf Performance results from these two competitors. Oracle9iAS also achieved the best result in the ECperf Price/Performance category.
On Linux, Oracle9iAS`s result is 36 percent better than that of IBM WebSphere`s best Price/Performance result on Linux. Combining today`s record-breaking ECperf Performance result with this recent top ECperf Price/Performance result proves that Oracle9iAS provides customers with the best combination of performance and price/performance to implement their middle-tier infrastructure for business applications and Web services.
Oracle9iAS Delivers the Industry`s Best Performance
ECperf is a benchmark of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers, which are used extensively today to power critical business applications and Web services. The ECperf benchmark is representative of real-world business applications including customer orders, inventory, manufacturing, and supply chain management. Application server providers report ECperf results in two categories: ECperf Performance and ECperf Price/Performance. The ECperf Performance benchmark measures how quickly a specific system configuration delivers output, while the ECperf Price/Performance benchmark reports how quickly the output is delivered in relation to the total cost of the system, including hardware, software and maintenance/support services.
The following are the top ECperf results.
* Oracle Top Performance Result: 51,007 BBops/min achieved on UltraSparc-III Sun Fire servers running with Oracle9iAS 2.0 and Oracle9i Database Release 2
* Oracle Top Price/Performance Results: 19,945 BBops/min, $7/BBops/min achieved on HP ProLiant DL360 server clusters running with Oracle9iAS 2.0 and Oracle9i Database Release 2
For a white paper containing a detailed analysis of these benchmark results, please visit www.oracle.com.
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Oracle solves the IT challenge of integrating fragmented middleware products to run an e-business by providing one product that can replace more than 12 separate point products from other vendors. Oracle9i Application Server features full J2EE support, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, wireless capabilities, Web services and more, all in one package. Oracle`s extensive investment in application server research and development has enabled the company to deliver a lightweight J2EE engine and extended caching capabilities that allow companies to save on infrastructure costs by scaling with software instead of hardware.
As of June 24, 2002: Oracle9iAS Release 2 on Sun Fire 3800, 51,007.8 BBops/min@STD, $37/BBops/min@STD. Oracle9iAS on HP ProLiant DL360 Cluster, 19,945 BBops/min@STD, $6.08*/BBops/min@STD. BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 Advantage Edition on HP rp8400, 37,791 BBops/min@STD, $38/BBops/min@STD. IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition, v4.0.3 32,581.47 BBops/min@STD, $11/BBops/min@STD. For more information, please see: http://ECperf.theserverside.com
*$6.08/ BBops/min@STD was rounded to $7/ BBops/min@STD
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