[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Oracle and HP today set a new world-record Transaction
Processing Council TPC-C benchmark of over one million transactions
per minute on a cluster of Linux servers.“The result was achieved Oracle Database 10g, HP Integrity
servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux AS 3.0. The benchmark not only sets a new industry record,
but also reflects the power of industry standard servers running
the Linux operating system in ‘scale out’ clustered server
configuration…”