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, (Fujitsu Limited/Asia-Pacific, Fujitsu Computer Systems/North America and Fujitsu Siemens Computers/EMEA) 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.

About Oracle Application Server 10g

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As of March 30, 2005:
SPECJAppServer2002:
Fujitsu-Siemens Computers' PRIMEPOWER 450/2500, Oracle Application Server 10g: 5,991.73 TOPS@MultipleNode, 654.20 Euros TOPS@MultipleNode (Best Overall Performance Result, SPECJAppServer2002 benchmark). HP Integrity Superdome, BEA WebLogic: 4,496.28 TOPS@MultipleNode, $652/TOPS@MultipleNode. IBM eServer xSeries 335 Cluster with IBM WebSphere 5.1 Application Server, 2,575.34 TOPS@MultipleNode, $330.07/TOPS@MultipleNode. Source: http://www.spec.org . For more information regarding the latest SPECjAppServer 2002 results, please visit: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2002/results/jAppServer2002.html.
SPECJAppServer2001:Sun Microsystems SunFire V1280 with Oracle9i Application Server, 521.86Bops/min@Std, $1,133.64/BBops (Best performance SPECJAppServer 2001 Dual Node category) Oracle9i AS Release 2 Standard Edition on HP DL360, 183.33 BBops/min@Std, $325.13/BBops (Best price performance SPECJAppServer2001 Dual Node category). Oracle9iAS Release 2 on HP rp8400 Cluster, 2,529.10 BBops, $1342.74/BBops, (Best performance SPECJAppServer2001 MultipleNode category). Oracle9iAS Release 2 on HP ProLiant ML530G2 Cluster, 558.85 BBops/min@Std, $389.66/BBops (Best price performance SPECJAppServer MultipleNode category).
Source: http://www.spec.org For more information regarding SPECJAppServer2001 results, please visit: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2001/results/jAppServer2001.html
ECperf Benchmark:Sun Fire 3800 cluster with Oracle9i AS Release 2, 61,862.77 BBops/min@Std, $28/BBops (Best Overall Performance, ECperf benchmark). HP DL360G2 cluster with Oracle9i AS Release 2, 24,639.37 BBops/min@Std, $5/BBops (Best Overall price/performance, ECperf benchmark). For more information regarding ECperf benchmark results, please visit: http://ecperf.theserverside.com/