Oracle(R) Application Server 10g Sets New SPECjAppServer(R) 2002 DualNode Performance World Record Benchmark

Oracle(R) Application Server 10g Sets New SPECjAppServer(R) 2002 DualNode Performance World Record Benchmark

Oracle's Result Surpasses BEA Systems' Best Performance Results on DualNode Benchmark

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today announced that Oracle(R) Application Server 10g set a new record for the fastest SPECjAppServer(R) 2002 DualNode performance benchmark. Oracle already holds the world record in the SPECjAppServer(R) 2002 MultipleNode category.

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Using a Dell PowerEdge 7250 server with four Intel Itanium 1.6 GHz 2 processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3, Oracle Application Server 10g coupled with Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition, achieved world record performance of 1,674.13 TOPS@DualNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-to-performance ratio of $132.52 USD/TOPS@DualNode. This record showcases Oracle's continued commitment to deliver high performance at low costs to its customers.

"Oracle and Dell continue to provide our customers with a great return on their technology investments," said Richard Sarwal, vice president, Server Performance, Oracle Corp. "This record is another milestone in Dell's technology partnership with Oracle."

Over the past two years, Oracle has submitted record application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. Oracle is the performance and price/performance leader in multiple SPECjAppServer 2001 and 2002 benchmark categories.

About Oracle Application Server 10g

Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards-based application platform suite that enables organizations of all sizes to be more responsive to changing business requirements. Oracle Application Server 10g features full support for J2EE and grid computing, 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. Because Oracle Application Server 10g is optimized for enterprise grid computing, it enables customers to realize better availability of their IT systems and lower hardware and administration costs.

About SPECjAppServer

SPECjAppServer 2002 is a client/server benchmark for measuring the performance of Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) -based application servers using a subset of J2EE APIs in a complete end-to-end Java application. It is the only industry-accepted benchmark to measure J2EE platform performance connecting into a database and is designed to model a manufacturing, supply-chain management and order/inventory environment.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/.

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SPEC(R) and the benchmark name SPECJAppServer(R) are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

As of Jan. 10, 2004: Dell PowerEdge 7250 server with four Intel Itanium 1.6 GHz 2 processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3, Oracle achieved 1,674.13 TOPS at DualNode (total operations per second) with a price-to-performance ratio of $132.52 USD/TOPS at DualNode.

SOURCE: http://www.spec.org/ . For more information regarding the latest SPECJAppServer results, please visit: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2002/results/jAppServer2002.html

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