Running on a single Sun Fire™ 25K server with 72 UltraSPARC IV+ 1.5 GHz processors and the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS), Oracle Database 10g Release 2 with Automatic Storage Management achieved a record-breaking performance of 105,430.9 QphH@3000GB with a price-performance ratio of $54.87/QphH@3000GB. Oracle Automatic Storage Management provides simplified database storage management and provisioning along with the ability to add and remove storage capacity without interrupting the database online operation.

"Oracle Database 10g Release 2 repeatedly demonstrates its superior fit in demanding data warehouse environments, " said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance, Oracle. "The addition of this benchmark helps to prove that no matter how much our customers' data warehouses grow, the Oracle Database will continue to deliver the best, most consistent database performance."

This latest benchmark adds to the extensive list of Oracle Database 10g performance world records, including the recently published TPC-H 10 TB benchmark of 108,099.7QphH@10000GB with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 running on the Sun Fire E25K server. 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. This new record-breaking benchmark highlights why customers choose Oracle on Sun systems to run very large databases. For more information on Oracle benchmark results please see: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/benchmark_results.html.

About Oracle Database 10g
The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. 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 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 Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC).

As of Jan. 27, 2006: Source: Transaction Performance Processing Council (TPC), www.tpc.org.

Sun Fire E25K, (72 chips, 144 cores, 144 threads) 108,099.7/QphH@10000GB, $53.80/QphH@10000GB, available 1/23/06. (World record TPC-H 10TB result)

Sun Fire E25K, (72 chips, 144 cores, 144 threads) 105,430.9/QphH@3000GB, $54.87/QphH@3000GB, available 1/23/06. (World record TPC-H 3TB result).

HP Integrity Superdome Server, 68,101/QphH@1000GB, $59/QphH@1000GB, available 1/18/06 (World Record TPC-H 1TB result)

HP BladeSystem Proliant BL25p, (8 Nodes/8 CPUs/16 Cores/16 Threads) 18,725.9/QphH@300GB, $27.97/QphH@300GB, available 11/11/05. (World record TPC-H 300GB result)