OIL & GAS

Oracle today announced that Oracle Application Server 10g closed out the SPECjAppServer2002 industry standard benchmark as the overall performance world record leader for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 application servers, beating out rivals BEA and IBM. Since September 2004, Oracle has held the lead position when it achieved the highest performance SPECjAppServer2002 MultipleNode benchmark with Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The SPECjAppServer2002 performance world record was set with Oracle Application Server 10g running on Solaris/SPARC 64V-based PRIMEPOWER 450/2500 servers of the Fujitsu group of companies as well as Fujitsu Siemens Computers' openSEAS product suite. On September 6, 2004, Oracle Application Server 10g together with Oracle Database 10g announced a record 5,991.73 TOPS@MultipleNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-performance of 654.20 Euros/TOPS@MultipleNode. The database was running on one Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 server with 56 SPARC64V 1.3 GHz processors. The J2EE application servers were 9 Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 450 servers each with 4 SPARC64V 1.32 GHz processors. Both were running the Solaris 9 operating environment. "Oracle has repeatedly established world records in J2EE Application Server benchmarks, beginning with ECperf and continuing with SPECjAppServer2001 and SPECjAppServer2002. Closing out the SPECjAppServer2002 as the world record leader is an impressive achievement," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance, Oracle. SPECjAppServer2002 is a client/server benchmark for measuring the performance of J2EE-based application servers using a subset of J2EE APIs in a complete end-to-end Java application. It is the only industry-accepted benchmark to measure J2EE platform performance connecting into a database and is designed to model a manufacturing, supply-chain management and order/inventory environment.