Dell Takes Performance and Price Lead on TPC-W

Dell Computer this week openly declared that the performance of IBMs lead in transaction processing performance of the TPC Stadium tungsten benchmarks, trading site e-commerce.

As of the end of January, Dell announced the results count in the 7783 wips 10,000 category. Results for 7073 wips marginal scores posted by IBM in mid-December.

At the same time, Dell continued to benchmark prices than IBMs. Dell is the price / performance leader, and in some 25.7 per cent, compared with 34.47 US dollars in products for IBM. This time, in the improvement of its original properties from over 1,000 wips, Dell also declined, the cost of each product to 24.40 US dollars.

Dells latest results are as follows IBMs lead on the use of more than one Web cache server, and the overall configuration of the 21 servers, Dell instead of the former 18.

Backend database is the result of the latest Dell four-processor servers running Windows 2000 Advanced Server and SQL Server 2000.

When IBM and Dells announcement of a benchmark, in December, it was the first time that any vendor has been running TPC benchmarks tungsten, in the 10,000 category about nine months.