Oracle: Oracle Database 10g, Linux Benchmarks “World’s Fastest”

“Demonstrating its commitment to providing the most reliable and
low-cost computing options to its customers, Oracle Corp., the
world’s largest enterprise software company, today announced a new
world record 4-processor TPC-C single-system benchmark result
running Oracle Database 10g on HP Integrity servers running
Linux.

“Using an industry-standard HP Integrity rx5670 64-bit server
with four Intel Itanium 2 processors at 1.5 GHz, with 6 Mbyte of L3
cache running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0, Oracle Database 10g
server achieved 136,110.98 tpmC with a price-performance ratio of
$4.09/tpmC, marking the fastest ever TPC-C single-system result on
Linux and the best price performance for any 4-processor 64-bit
server on the market today…”

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