Someday the world will wake-up. Maybe June 11, 1998 will go down as the beginning of the end for both MSFT and INTC. (See below)
Robin
DIGITAL AND ORACLE SHATTER
THE INDUSTRY'S PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK
... Shatters 100,000 Transaction per Minute Barrier,
Nearly Twice the Previous Record...
... Powerful Server Provides Performance and Scalability
for the Growing Needs of Internet-Based Computing ...
NEW YORK, May 5, 1998 -- Digital Equipment Corporation and Oracle Corporation today announced a new breakthrough in performance scalability for enterprise computing. At Digital's UNIX Executive Summit held here, the companies disclosed that a Digital UNIX TruCluster powered by AlphaServer 8400 5/625 systems, Oracle8 Enterprise Edition, Oracle Parallel Server, and Digital StorageWorks is the industry's first platform to surpass the performance milestone of 100,000 transactions per minute.
This achievement clearly demonstrates the sustained ability of Digital and Oracle to provide customers the most scalable computing solutions for their business-critical enterprise applications.
Based on the industry-standard TPC-C benchmark suite, the UNIX-based Alpha / Oracle platform achieved an astonishing 102,541.85 tpmC at $139.53 per tpmC. Digital and Oracle deliver transaction performance nearly twice that of the nearest competitor with lower cost per
transaction. The new performance record also beats the two next highest marks by nearly 100 percent.
"Once again, Digital and Oracle take the high ground in performance scalability," said Harry Copperman, senior vice president and group executive, Digital Products Division. "Our 64-bit AlphaPowered platform was the first to break the 10,000 tpmC barrier, the 30,000 mark, and now the 100,000 plateau. This sustained progress demonstrates the engineering excellence Digital delivers to the market."
"To deploy database applications at the lowest cost, you need to consolidate all you shared data onto fewer database servers," said Gary Bloom, Oracle's executive vice president of the System Products Division. "Today, Oracle and Digital have enabled a new era of data center consolidation that delivers performance and fault tolerance with unprecedented economies of scale."
Scaling New Performance Peaks
Today's performance breakthrough combines Digital's Alpha processor architecture, the industry's fastest, and Digital's advanced 64-bit UNIX file system, with the scalability and reliability of the Oracle8 database server, and the extraordinary memory capacity available only
in 64-bit systems. For data-intensive work such as data warehousing, Web commerce, and other transaction-oriented applications, the Digital/Oracle ensemble delivers world-class performance on parallel loads, queries and indexing. This enables customers to consolidate multiple servers into one powerful server, resulting in lower management costs and increased reliability.
The test platform consisted of a UNIX TruCluster configuration powered by eight AlphaServer 8400 5/625 systems, each running 12 Alpha 21164 processors at 625 MHz, serving as the database server for 24 Digital Personal Workstation clients. The system managed nearly 18TB of StorageWorks storage running under Oracle8 Enterprise Edition database software.
Superior Hardware, Operating System, Clustering
Digital's AlphaPowered UNIX platform provides customers the most powerful, complete, Year 2000-ready family of 64-bit solutions, scalable to meet tomorrow's growing business requirements. Digital UNIX is the highest performing, most scalable and robust UNIX operating system on the market today. With its production-proven, full 64-bit architecture, advanced operating system features and nearly 5,000 applications, Digital UNIX can handle the most demanding business and technical challenges -- in any industry. By conforming to all major industry standards for open systems, Digital UNIX protects customers' investment and ensures stability for future growth.
In close cooperation with Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. and Tandem Computers, Inc., Digital is rapidly building a community of UNIX vendors working to make Digital UNIX the de facto standard for the forthcoming Intel IA-64 platform.
Whether users need the TruCluster power of eight AlphaServer 8400 systems or have more modest requirements, Digital's experience in clustering technology, along with the widest breadth of cluster-ready systems in the industry, ensure that the solution meets those growing
needs.
In addition to high availability, clusters provide the performance scalability customers need to compete successfully in today's global marketplace. Organizations facing unplanned events such as component failure, administrative error, or building-level mishaps require easy-to-deploy high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
With 15 years of cluster experience and more than 75,000 installed clusters, Digital delivers sophisticated solutions, custom-configured to the most exacting requirements, or factory-packaged and -tested for fast, simplified deployment and management.
Oracle is the marketshare leader and the performance benchmark leader on both UNIX and Windows NT. For more than 20 years, Oracle and Digital have partnered to develop leading edge technology for their customers. Together, Oracle and Digital have introduced many
technology firsts, such as clustering and 64-bit computing. Oracle solutions are available on Digital Alpha UNIX, Alpha OpenVMS, Alpha NT and Intel NT.
As an OLTP system benchmark, TPC-C simulates a complete computing environment with a population of terminal operators executing transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities of an order-entry environment, and includes
a diverse spectrum of transactions ranging from entering and delivering orders to recording payments and monitoring stock levels. The TPC-C is not designed to portray the activity of a particular business segment, but rather to represent any industry that must manage, sell or distribute a product or service. For more information about TPC benchmarks and results, please refer to the Transaction Performance Council Web site at tpc.org.
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of more than 6.7 billion, the company offers its database, application server, tools and application
products, along with related consulting, education and support ervices, in more than 140 countries around the world.
Digital Equipment Corporation, recognized for product and service excellence, is a leading supplier of high-performance, Web-based computing solutions, which help enterprises compete in the global marketplace. Digital gives its customers a winning Internet advantage
through a comprehensive portfolio of Internet solutions based on ward-winning systems, advanced networking infrastructure, innovative software, and industry applications - including those from business partners. The expertise and experience of Digital employees help customers plan, design, implement, manage and support Internet solutions in countries throughout the world. For the latest company information, visit Digital on the World Wide Web at digital.com and/or newsdesk.com
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