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To: robert b furman who wrote (17290)	6/24/2002 10:22:57 PM
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Oracle Announces New Record-Breaking One Terabyte Data Warehousing Benchmark Result COPENHAGEN, Denmark, ORACLEWORLD, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ( oracle.com ) Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced a record-breaking performance and price performance one terabyte TPC-H data warehousing benchmark result for Oracle9i Database Release 2 on a 64-way HP Superdome Server with the new PA-8700+ processor. This new world record one terabyte TPC-H benchmark outperforms the previous record in this category, which ran IBM DB2 EEE, by 15 percent -- using half the number of processors -- and costs 16 percent less per QphH@1000GB. This new record also surpasses NCR Teradata's best result by delivering 39 percent better performance, using half the number of processors and costs 67 percent less per QphH@1000GB. As the leading database of choice for production data warehousing, Oracle9i Database Release 2 provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high performing data warehousing implementations. This new record-breaking benchmark illustrates why customers choose Oracle over competing database products to run very large databases and builds on a long history of performance world records. As of June 22, 2002: HP Superdome (64 processors), 25,805.4 QphH@1000GB, $213/QphH@1000GB, available 10/30/02. HP ProLiant DL760 (128 processors), 22,361.9 QphH@1000GB, $255/QphH@1000GB, available 6/20/02. Teradata WorldMark 5250 (128 processors), 18,542.9 QphH@1000GB, available 7/27/01. Source: Transaction Processing Council (TPC) tpc.org. NOTE: Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle International Corporation.