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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

          ORACLE REPORTS HIGHEST SUN TPC-A BENCHMARK RESULTS

SunFLASH Vol 42 #14					           June 1992 
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	   First Performance Results for ORACLE7 Top 107 tps

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- June 11, 1992 -- Oracle Corporation today
announced it has achieved the highest ever Transaction Processing
Council Benchmark A (TPC-A local) result among database vendors running
on a Sun SPARCserver 690MP.  This benchmark test - which resulted in
107.28 transactions per second (tps) - is the first performance figure
reported for Oracle's latest RDBMS release, ORACLE7.

"This announcement marks the initial efforts of a long-term, joint
development project between Oracle and Sun," said James Sha, vice
president of Oracle's UNIX Products Division. "We have been working
very closely with Sun over the last several months porting and
optimizing ORACLE7 for the SPARC architecture.  The on-going
performance work will continue to enhance performance by exploiting
Solaris 2.0 features and the recently introduced SuperSPARC-based
SPARCserver family."

"These latest performance results clearly demonstrate that the Sun
SPARCserver multiprocessing architecture running ORACLE7 has the
commercial strength and OLTP performance required for downsizing
mainframe applications to distributed client-server environments," said
Bruce Golden, senior director for Commercial Markets Development at Sun
Microsystems Computer Corporation. "The open solutions provided by Sun
and Oracle also provide excellent connectivity to existing legacy
systems."

The ORACLE7 test on the Sun SPARCserver 690MP simulated a system
environment with 1080 online users accessing more then 20 gigabytes of
data.  Total system cost, including hardware, software, and five years
of maintenance came to $1,352,118 or $12,604 per tpsA.  ORACLE7 results
were achieved through a combination of new features, including the
capabilities of PL/SQL procedures executing within the RDBMS and hashed
clustered indexes, and architectural enhancements that reduced CPU and
memory utilization.

About Oracle

Oracle Corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., is the
largest supplier of DBMS software and the third largest software and
services company in the world.  Oracle develops and markets an
integrated line of software products for database management, computer
aided systems engineering (CASE), applications development, decision
support and office automation, as well as families of financial, human
resource and manufacturing applications. Oracle products are available
on PCs, minicomputers and mainframes, and ORACLE is the first and only
open and relational database to run on massively parallel
supercomputers.  The company offers its products, along with related
consulting, education and support services, in 92 countries around the
world. Oracle is a publicly held corporation whose shares are traded on
NASDAQ/NMS with the ticker symbol ORCL.  For further information about
Oracle, call Oracle corporate headquarters at 415/507-7000 or write to
Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065

About Sun

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation is the world's leading supplier
of client-server computing solutions, which feature networked
workstations and servers that store, process and distribute,
information.  Used for many demanding commercial and technical
applications, Sun's products command the largest share of the computer
industry's fastest-growing market segment:  workstations and servers.
Sun Microsystems, Inc., founded in 1982 and headquartered in Mountain
View, Calif., is a multi-billion dollar corporation doing business
worldwide.

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ORACLE is a registered trademark, and ORACLE7 and PL/SQL are trademarks
of Oracle Corporation.  Transaction Processing Council Benchmark A is a
trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.  Sun, Sun
Microsystems and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Micorsystems, Inc.  SPARCserver is a trademark of SPARC International,
Inc.  Products bearing the SPARC trademark are based on an architecture
developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.


PR Contacts:

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation 	Amy Christen (415) 336-3705
Hi-Tech Communications 			Dan Stevens  (415) 904-7000
Oracle Corporation 			Steve Lai (415) 506-3117
Product marketing contact: 		Margo Davis (415) 336-1914

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