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To: Stormweaver who wrote (15743)	4/26/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Undoubtedly some IBM box can beat some SUNW box according to some metric. JMHO.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (15743)	4/26/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"...I heard the new IBM box beat the SUNW box on some "web" benchmark ? " oh...funny you would catch that one. In the same time span i believe that Sun released the best OLTP benchmark beating HP's recently released number by about 20% which is a more impactful benchmark. All benchmarks are just a game of leapfrog anyway so I dont give any of them too much weight. as far as Specweb goes - it's nice that IBM has some good numbers now if only there were some internet applications which ran on AIX - like those fron inktomi, broadvision and any decent ecommmerce software which wasnt ported over from the S/390 or come from Lotus. Now that would have a significant impact on the 4 cpu web server market.