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To: JC Jaros who wrote (33032)	6/24/2000 9:10:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

JC - The UE10000 monolithic - (single system) number is 115395 at $105.63 per transaction. The UE10000 used 64 processors to get there. The IBM S80 number is also a single system number. IBM got 135815.70 at $52.70 per transaction and only needed 24 processors to get the job done. The UE10000 system as configured he cost $12.1 M, while the IBM system cost $7.1M. Both systems ran Oracle 8i. This was straight apples-to-apples single system performance. No slight of hand or marketing fluff here - see: tpc.org Looking at cluster numbers, Sun did a 96 processor cluster of 6500s to get 135461 at $97.10 while Compaq also used a 96 processor cluster - 8500s - to get 227079 at $19.12. Here again, pretty much apples to apples, with the performance and price of Sun not looking too competitive. TPC-C is hardly the only measure of value or performance but these numbers are important because the differences are large. IBM offers a big SMP Unix solution with better performance than the UE10000 for half the price. CPQ offers a cluster solution with nearly twice the performance of the Sun cluster at 1/5 of the price. Sooner or later, people will start to take notice.