sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SUN SYSTEM SETS NEW TPC-A PRICE/PERFORMANCE RECORD SunFLASH Vol 56 #16 August 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56.16 Sun System Sets New TPC-A Price/Performance Record SMCC & Oracle reported new Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A (TPC-A) that set a new industry price/performance record. The eight-processor model of SMCC's new SPARCserver(TM) 1000 system running the Oracle7 Cooperative Server database delivered 400.47 transactions per second and $4,972 per tpsA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Steve O'Brien (415) 336-5334. SMCC and Oracle Break $5,000-Per-Transaction Barrier MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - August 16, 1993 - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) and Oracle Corporation today reported new benchmark results of the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A (TPC-A) that set a new industry price/performance record. The eight-processor model of SMCC's new SPARCserver(TM) 1000 system running the Oracle7 Cooperative Server database delivered 400.47 transactions per second and $4,972 per tpsA. SMCC is the first vendor to break the $5,000 per tpsA barrier, beating out all other database servers, including PC-class systems. Introduced in May, and having been shipped in volume since June, the SPARCserver 1000 system is a compact desktop departmental server that can be configured with up to eight SuperSPARC(TM) processors. According to market research firm InfoCorp, more than 21,000 Sun(TM) MP servers will be shipped by the end of 1993, making SMCC the leading MP systems provider with a market share of 31.4 percent. These benchmark results mark the latest milestone achieved through the partnership between the two UNIX RDBMS market leaders. According to a recent IDC report, SMCC is the world's leading supplier of UNIX RDBMS servers with 24.9 percent of all UNIX RDBMS licenses being sold on Sun hardware. Oracle continues to lead the market for UNIX RDBMS software with a 44.3 percent market share. "The breakthrough price/performance of Oracle7 on the Sun SPARCserver 1000 is the result of the ongoing, close working relationship that Oracle has with SMCC and Sunsoft," said Joseph Vassallo, vice president of the Sun Products Division at Oracle. "Our best engineers are continuing to find ways to optimize and enhance our respective products for the benefit of our mutual customers." "Sun's high-performance SuperSPARC systems and Solaris(R) 2 operating environment combined with Oracle7 Cooperative Server provide the type of performance our customers demand," said Curt Wozniak, vice president of marketing at SMCC. "Sun and Oracle continue to deliver outstanding database price/performance in a highly expandable and affordable departmental server." Symmetric multiprocessing features contained in the Solaris 2 distributed operating environment allow for better scaling of database application performance. Not only does the SPARCserver 1000 exceed the price/performance of PC-level servers, but it also delivers a level of performance available in data center-class systems costing up to three times as much from other major UNIX(R) computer vendors such as DEC, HP and IBM. The recent benchmark tested an eight-way SPARCserver 1000 system running Oracle7, supporting a network of 4,040 terminals connected to four SPARCserver 10 front-end application servers. 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