Mincom and Sun Microsystems Benchmark Reveals New Performance Highs for
Customers
DENVER, Aug 30, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mincom, Inc. and Sun Microsystems
(Nasdaq: SUNW) have conducted a benchmark using a Sun Enterprise platform. The
study revealed that Mincom's Ellipse(sm), the latest version of the company's
flagship enterprise application solution MIMS Open Enterprise, has the capacity
to support at least 10,000 concurrent users while operating in a UNIX
environment. This is the highest level of performance ever achieved by Mincom.
The benchmark tested Ellipse using BEA Tuxedo middle-ware port and Oracle 8i on
Sun Enterprise 10000 servers. The project enabled Mincom to run 10,000 users and
its full suite of Ellipse applications concurrently on a single Sun Enterprise
10000 StarFire server to test the robustness and performance of the load in a
UNIX environment.
Mincom's President of North American operations, Larry Hagewood, said this
performance is an outstanding result for Mincom clients, because they will
benefit from lower enterprise ownership costs.
"These extraordinary responses will generate increased user satisfaction," Mr.
Hagewood said. "For our clients, this translates as high end-user value. The
transaction response times during the test were better than 0.5 seconds at the
client and less than 0.2 seconds at the server on average - a truly great
result," Mr. Hagewood said.
The workload processed a total of 1.1 million transaction requests over one hour
with a mean response time of 1.2 seconds, utilizing 95 percent of the CPU on the
Enterprise 10000. The average throughput over the entire run was about 300
transactions per second.
Another run included 8,000 concurrent virtual users with the same workload
processing a total of 947,000 transaction requests with a mean response time of
0.35 seconds, utilizing 64 percent of the CPU on the Sun Enterprise 10000.
Average throughput during the entire run was 250 transactions per second.
"The Sun Enterprise 10000 platform also exhibited excellent scalability from a
CPU resource utilization for workloads from 1,200 to 10,000 concurrent users,"
Mr. Hagewood said. "This is by far the largest user count on a single box for
the premier Mincom applications suite, Ellipse. It not only demonstrates the
scalability and flexibility of Ellipse, but also the processing power and
reliability of the Sun Enterprise 10000 server and Solaris Operating
Environment.
"Our enterprise applications software is used by a variety of organizations
ranging from the relatively small to the very large, and all customers can be
satisfied that the Ellipse architecture will permit them to grow their business
usage in an extremely cost effective and efficient manner," he concluded.
The benchmark study was conducted at Sun Microsystem's Customer Benchmark Center
in Menlo Park, California. Sun customers use the center to create proof of
concepts and develop architectural blueprints in a lab/enterprise environment.
The facilities enable Sun, its partners and customers to develop and test
dot-com solutions and provide access to a full range of hardware, software and
supporting facilities from Sun, its partners and competitors.
About Mincom, Inc.
Mincom, Inc. designs and delivers total enterprise applications solutions for
capital asset-dependent companies in the utility, transportation, mining, oil
and gas, and defense and government industries. Mincom serves customers in more
than 40 countries through four business units providing applications software,
professional services, Tequinox for ASP (Application Service Provider) offerings
and internet electronic documentation. Mincom's North American headquarters is
in Denver, CO. Mincom partners with other global companies, including IBM (NYSE:
IBM), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), Deloitte Consulting, Andersen Consulting,
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), PricewaterhouseCoopers, BEA Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) and
Sterling Commerce (NYSE: SE).
About Sun Microsystems
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The
Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its
position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and
services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their
businesses. With $15.7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than
170 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.
CONTACT: Mincom, Inc.
Miki McDonald, 770.864.7138
mmcdonal@mincom.com
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