Running on a Bull NovaScale 5160, with 16 Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 1.6 GHz processors, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and using the Xyratex RS-1600-FC-SBD Storage enclosures, Oracle(r) Database 10g Release 2 with Oracle Automatic Storage Management achieved a record performance of 15,069/QphH@1000GB with a price-performance ratio of $44.33/QphH@1000 GB. A feature of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Automatic Storage Management is a database files system that provides cluster file system and volume manager functionality. Oracle Automatic Storage Management delivers the performance of raw asynchronous I/O with the ease of management of a file system.

"We're proud to showcase Oracle Database 10g's outstanding performance on Windows," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance, Oracle. "Oracle has a proven history of fine-tuning its products to perform well and consistently across different platforms, and the fact that Oracle Database 10g runs more effectively and cost-efficiently on Windows than Microsoft SQL Server is a testament to our efforts."

"This benchmark result proves that NovaScale 5160 server running Oracle Database 10g can address very large-scale processing requirements," said Henri Pfahl, Director of the NovaScale server business unit of Bull. "NovaScale Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 based servers, together with Oracle Database 10g, is an ideal platform for high-performing data warehouse applications."

More and more companies, across industries and departments, have an increasingly greater need for decision support systems. Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Bull NovaScale 5160 server, along with the specific decision support services provided by the Bull's service integration teams, deliver a measurable competitive edge to their users.

This benchmark adds to the extensive list of Oracle Database 10g performance world records, including world record TPC-H benchmarks in the larger scale factor categories - three and ten terabytes. With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle continues to provide customers with industry-leading capabilities that support the most demanding data warehousing and transaction processing requirements. As the leading database for production data warehousing, Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high performing data warehousing implementations. Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is scheduled to be generally available in mid-2005.

After the records set by the NovaScale servers in the High Performance Computing area(2), the results announced today in the business community are another proof of the power of the Intel(r) Itanium(r)2 based NovaScale range of servers.

About Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage all data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.

About TPC-H
TPC-H is a decision support benchmark consisting of a suite of business oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The performance metric is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size) and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. More information is available at http://www.tpc.org.

About Bull
Bull designs and develops servers, software and services for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies, and proposes a wide range of services, from system integration consulting to outsourcing. Bull delivers its expertise and know-how to its customers to help them transform and optimize their IT infrastructure and applications.

Bull has a strong presence in the public, banking, finance, telecommunication and manufacturing sectors and has a broad and thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors. Bull Evidian is Bull's secure management software unit: the leading European player in identity and access management software.

Its distribution network reaches over 100 countries worldwide.

About Oracle
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As of June 20th, 2005:
Bull NovaScale 5160, 15,069/QphH@1000GB, $ 44.33/QphH@1000GB, available December 20, 2005 (best TPC-H 1TB performance result for 16 processor server on Windows)

HP Integrity rx8620, 13,637.8 QphH@1000GB, $54/QphH@1000GB, available December 7, 2005 (best performing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 TPC-H 1TB result for a 16-processor server on Windows).

SunFire E25K 59,435/QphH@3000GB, Oracle Database 10g, $101.00/QphH@3000GB, available July 27, 2005 (world record TPC-H 3TB performance result).

HP Integrity Superdome Enterprise Server 49,104.5 QphH@10000GB, Oracle Database 10g, $118/QphH@10000GB, available March 14, 2004 (world record TPC-H 10TB non-clustered performance result).

Source: Transaction Processing Council (TPC), www.tpc.org
For more information on TPC-H and TPC-C benchmarks, please visit www.tpc.org. TPC is a registered trademark by the Transaction Processing Council.

World First in Cryptography, Bull's Press Release September, 2004. Unmatched I/O performance of Bull's high performance solutions with the Lustre file system; Bull's Press Release November, 2004. For more information on Bull news, please visit http://www.wcm.bull.com/internet/pr/index.jsp 2