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To: Lynn who wrote (20457)	9/30/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Lynn, (YAWN) Here goes SUNW! (AGAIN) It even breaks its own benchmark records!!! Another superior performance by a company that develops excellent technology! Sun Breaks Its Own World Record for TPC-C Performance PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A computer system comprised of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) servers, software and storage set the world record for performance in online transaction processing, the company announced today. Sun also set and held the previous TPC-C record. Established by the Transaction Processing Council, the TPC-C benchmark is an industry-standard test designed to measure systems' online transaction processing capacity under controlled conditions. This latest record -- 135,461 transactions per minute (tpmC) -- eclipses Sun's previous record by over 17 percent. It was set on a system that included a cluster of four Sun Enterprise(TM) 6500 servers running Sun's Solaris(TM) 2.6 operating environment and Sun(TM) Cluster 2.2 software; Sun StorEdge(TM) A5200 and A5100 disk arrays, totaling 14 terabytes; Oracle8i Oracle Parallel Server v.8.1.6 database; and the BEA TUXEDO 6.3 transaction platform from BEA Systems, Inc. Along with record throughput, the system achieved price-performance of $97.10/tpmC. By comparison, the most recently published TPC-C results (100K-and-up tpmC class) from IBM and Compaq yielded price-performance scores of $122.44/tpmC and $139.49/tpmC, respectively. (See comparison chart below.) All hardware and software used in the benchmark configuration are immediately available, with the exception of Oracle8i Oracle Parallel Server, which will be available January 31, 2000. These new results illustrate the effectiveness of Sun Enterprise servers and Sun StorEdge arrays in delivering high-availability, high-performance and scalable computing environments for e-commerce, business and technical applications. In addition to performance, however, Sun is focused on providing systems that deliver the highest levels of availability needed in today's .com environments. Sun continues to raise the bar, not only for top performance, but also for top performance in high availability configurations. For years, Sun has been steadfastly focused on optimizing the Solaris operating environment, clustering technology and system capabilities for true high availability configurations, which perform failover and present no single point of failure. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, ``The Network Is The Computer(TM),' has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com. NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Sun Enterprise, Sun StorEdge and The Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. TPC-C BENCHMARK COMPARISONS System tpmC Price/tpmC Database Application System Availability Date Sun Enterprise 6500 (4 nodes) 135,461 $97.10 Oracle8i Oracle Parallel Server 8.1.6 1/31/00 Sun Enterprise 10000 115,395 $105.63 Oracle8i Oracle Parallel Server 8.1.5.1 8/22/99 IBM RS6000 S70 (5 nodes) 110,434 $122.44 Oracle Parallel Server 8.0 6/30/99 Compaq AlphaServer 8400 (8 nodes) 102,541 $139.49 Oracle Parallel Server 8.0 9/15/98