Scale-Up

1 HP benchmarks published this week a representative of the first time in recent memory any UNIX system has been more than a Windows system, the price of comparable performance.

HP transaction processing performance using the flexibility of raw materials on-line transaction processing benchmark, TPC - C, in order to show off its new HP rp8400 server side of the UNIX / RISC servers.

HPs public statement on the new server did not mention Windows 2000 servers in the data center or the Unisys systems 32 processor ES7000 server servers, Intel treatment - based servers, HP had planned to resell, but later abandoned.

HP beating performance and price that the Unix / RISC systems from IBM and Sun Microsystems raw materials performance level compared to the 32-way Unisys systems running Windows servers in the data center and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Again, submitted last week to 141,000 transactions per minute on the TPC - C (tpmc), and the new 16 processor, 64-bit systems from HP about 140,000 tpmc unknown.

HP system cost 16.31 US dollars per tpmc and Unisys system cost 23.84 US dollars.

Price / performance on the TPC - C testing has long been Microsofts stronghold, and CEO Steve Ballmer publicly hotpot last year, in the proposed SQL and data center has to catch up to Sun, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in various fields Data Center. Ballmer said that all other vendors to catch up to Microsofts price.

Jeff ressler, lead product manager of Microsofts SQL Server, Sybase using the HP Adaptive Server on the 12th in its base, and that they can make use of the database in order to reduce system costs.

"I think it is too tell, said that the reference point is not to do with another Sybase product," said ressler named IBMs DB2 and Oracle Several analysts have recently classified database market, as a three-way struggle between IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.

Ressler also predicted that the price of large windows server system will drop, because of competition in the area increased. Intel is the SMP chipset, its second-generation 64-bit processor, while IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are major systems developed to run Intel processors.

The Unisys spokesman said the incentive for users to switch to Intel and Microsoft software system, and not just the cost, but also about the wider developer and supplier of ships and written applications for the Windows platform.

While Microsoft and Unisys has been identified UNIX / RISC systems, as its main competition on the data centre and ES7000 servers, Tom manter, analyst with the Aberdeen Group said that the market for RISC and Intel-based servers remain distinct.

"Must let this sounds like a very substantial base of RISC," said manter. "You see the number, we normally see, it is higher than 30 yuan, I think the folks that really should be concerned about the things that it is IBM, and Sun."