I think Unisys will move quickly in the next 1-3 months. It's getting a stronger brand name recognition and it's 1998 performance is starting to catch the eyes of street MM's. Look for 50 by about April.
Fez
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Tests of New Unisys Servers Show That Intel 450-MHz Pentium II Xeon Processor Boosts 4-Way Server Performance By More Than 10 Percent
BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--
TPC-C benchmarks show price per transaction for the new Unisys
servers is about one-third that of the industry's fastest
four-processor UNIX system
Unisys Corporation Tuesday announced its first four-processor Windows NT server series based on Intel's 450-MHz Pentium II Xeon processor.
The new Unisys QR/2 server achieved 21,354.55 transactions per minute (tpmC) and a price per transaction of $23.73/tpmC in tests performed under the Transaction Processing Council's "C" benchmark methodology, the computer industry's standard method of measuring transaction processing performance.
Equipped with the new 450-MHz Intel Pentium II Xeon processor with up to 2 Mbyte of Level 2 cache, the new Unisys QR/2, QS/2, QR2/V, and QS/2V servers represent yet another substantial step forward in realizing the promise of enterprise-class performance for systems based on Intel and Microsoft technology.
The TPC-C benchmarks demonstrated a performance improvement of nearly 12 percent compared to Unisys servers incorporating the earlier-generation 400-MHz Intel Pentium II Xeon processor. They also show that the price per transaction of the fastest UNIX four-processor system, tested on June 30, 1998, is nearly three times that of the new Unisys servers.
"No more than a half a year after we set new performance standards with our first four-way server based on the Intel Pentium II Xeon processor, Unisys is again offering record-setting performance based on the newest Intel technology," said Don Johnson, vice president and general manager, Windows NT Server Business, Unisys Computer Systems. "As we continue to apply Unisys enterprise expertise to platforms based on Intel and Microsoft technology, we are able to deliver significant price/performance improvements in shorter and shorter timeframes."
"The impressive TPC-C benchmark results reported for the new Unisys server demonstrate the power and scalability that the Pentium II Xeon processor delivers to business users," said Anthony Ambrose, marketing manager for Intel's Enterprise Server Group. "Unisys is well-positioned to realize the vision of mainframe-class scalability, high availability, and ease of administration on Intel-based servers."
Pricing for the new servers, which are available today, starts at $10,895. |
