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To: E_K_S who wrote (19293)	12/30/1997 11:29:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Respond to of 42771

To All: The Java Virtural Machine - benchmark tests 12/12/97... pathfinder.com SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ VOLANO AND JAVAWORLD RELEASE FIRST-EVER BENCHMARK RANKINGS DEDICATED TO JAVA From the article: "...Among the four JVMs compared by Volano on an Intel platform last week, the fastest was Windows NT, with a VolanoMark score of 756, followed by Sun Solaris at 334, IBM OS/2 Warp at 239, and Red Hat Linux at 223. As a result of major improvements made by each of the Java vendors, the server-side performance of their latest JVMs is several times faster than their implementations from earlier this year. (See the JavaWorld article for details.) ..." <<< It look's like Novell has licensed the product for their internal use...>>> A version of VolanoMark has been licensed by a number of leading Java vendors, including Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Novell, Silicon Graphics, SCO, Softway, SuperCede, and Sun Microsystems. These vendors have been using VolanoMark to optimize their respective Java implementations for highly threaded, highly networked Java applications. =================================================================== Here is more info on how the benchmark test is performed: techmall.com VolanoMark is currently being used internally by a number of leading Java vendors, including BSDI, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc., Softway Pty., Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., and SuperCede Inc. VolanoMark can be downloaded for free from Volano's Web site (http://www.volano.com). ====================================================================== JVM performance is critical to the customer's acceptance of this technology....It look's like Microsoft got it right...what about Novell? EKS