PR: IBM Shatters Benchmark Performance Record with WebSphere Running on Linux

Somers, NY, April 26, 2002. . .IBM today announced new
industry-standard ECperf benchmark results showing that WebSphere
running on Linux, the open source platform, delivers the
high-performance and scalability required to deploy e-business
applications while enabling customers to reduce the total cost of
ownership (TCO).

ECPerf is an Enterprise JavaBeans benchmark designed to measure
the scalability and performance of J2EE servers and containers. It
is developed under the Java Community Process and has been built in
conjunction with J2EE server vendors.

IBM’s most recent ECperf submission, demonstrates a real
e-business solution with IBM WebSphere Internet infrastructure
software, a cluster of eServer xSeries systems running Red Hat
Linux and DB2. This solution almost doubled the previous
performance record held by BEA and HP running Windows 2000 Server.
While setting a new standard for performance, the IBM submission
was also 39 percent less expensive than the BEA and HP
solution.

IBM is the first company to submit an ECperf benchmark running
on Linux.

IBM delivered 32581.47 BBops/min@Std, a measurement of workload,
and $11/BBops, the measurement of total cost of ownership of the
system under test. These results show the value and performance
that customers can realize with a world-class e-business
infrastructure from IBM. For more information about IBM’s ECperf
benchmark results, as well as the full disclosure report, visit
http://ecperf.theserverside.com/ecperf/

“IBM software and hardware running on Red Hat Linux is a
powerful combination, delivering the industry’s best value, lowest
TCO with industry leading performance,” said Scott Hebner, Director
of Marketing, IBM WebSphere. “More and more businesses are
considering performance results when making purchasing decisions.
These results, coupled with our extensive customer base, shows that
WebSphere delivers superior performance while cutting the overall
cost of running applications.”

IBM continues to set the standard for performance. In an earlier
submission using Java, WebSphere and DB2 running Windows 2000, IBM
achieved the equivalent performance at only 72 percent the cost of
BEA WebLogic’s submission.