The details of the two recent SPECjAppServer 2002 benchmark results for Oracle Application Server 10g on HP industry-standard servers are as follows:
* MultipleNode - Best Performance on Linux and Best Price/Performance: 1,165.06 TOPS@MultipleNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-to-performance ratio of $150.67 USD/TOPS@MultipleNode on a three-node HP ProLiant ML370G3 server cluster running with Oracle Application Server 10g and the Linux operating system.
* Dual Node - Best Performance and Best Price/Performance: 431.26 TOPS@DualNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-to-performance ratio of $160.62 USD/TOPS@DualNode on single node HP ProLiant ML370G3 server with Oracle Application Server 10g and the Linux operating system.

"HP is committed to delivering powerful solutions to enterprise customers that increase return on IT and business agility, helping them compete in today's economy," said Efrain Rovira, director of marketing for Linux, HP Enterprise Servers and Storage. "Customers are looking to both HP - for leading industry-standard servers running Linux - and Oracle - for superior application infrastructure software - for highly scalable and integrated platforms on which to support business-critical applications."

Over the past two years, Oracle has submitted record application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. Oracle is the performance and price/performance leader in multiple SPECjAppServer 2001 benchmark categories. In addition, Oracle also holds the world records for best performance and price/performance in the ECperf benchmark of Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers reported in July 2002. Oracle's ECperf performance result was 39 percent faster than the best result for IBM WebSphere, and in ECperf price/performance, Oracle was 54 percent more cost-effective than IBM WebSphere.

About Oracle Application Server 10g
Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards-based software platform that allows organizations of all sizes to be more responsive to changing business requirements. Oracle Application Server 10g features full support for J2EE and grid computing, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, wireless capabilities, Web services and more, all in one package. Because Oracle Application Server 10g is optimized for enterprise grid computing, it enables customers to realize better availability of their IT systems and lower hardware and administration costs.

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As of September 5, 2003: Source: http://www.spec.org. For more information regarding SPECJAppServer 2002 results, please visit: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2002/results/jAppServer2002.html Sun Microsystems SunFire V1280 with Oracle9i Application Server, 521.86Bops/min@Std, $1,133.64/BBops (Best performance SPECJAppServer 2001 Dual Node category) Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 Standard Edition on HP DL360, 183.33 BBops/min@Std, $325.13/BBops (Best price performance SPECJAppServer2001 Dual Node category). Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 on HP rp8400 Cluster, 2,529.10 BBops, $1342.74/BBops, (Best performance SPECJAppServer2001 MultipleNode Category). Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 on HP ProLiant ML530G2 Cluster, 558.85 BBops/min@Std, $389.54/BBops (Best price performance SPECJAppServer MultipleNode category). For more information regarding SPECJAppServer2001 results, please visit: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2001/results/jAppServer2001.html Sun Fire 3800 cluster with Oracle9i Application Server Release 2, 61,862.77 BBops/min@Std, $28/BBops (Best Overall Performance, ECperf benchmark). HP DL360G2 cluster with Oracle9i Application Server Release 2, 24,639.37 BBops/min@Std, $5/BBops (Best Overall price/performance, ECperf benchmark). IBM eServer x330 cluster with Websphere AE 4.0.3, 44,294.97 BBops/min@Std, $23/BBops (Best IBM WebSphere ECperf performance result). IBM eServer x330 cluster with WebSphereAE 4.0.3, 32,581.47 BBops/min@Std, $11/BBops (Best IBM WebSphere ECperf price performance result). For more information regarding ECperf benchmark results, please visit: http://ecperf.theserverside.com/