On February 14, Oracle Corporation announced that it had achieved a TPC-C performance benchmark record result for the Itanium platform using Oracle(R) Database 10g on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST(r) 540 server and the Linux operating system. This latest benchmark also signified world-class achievement among 16-processor Linux systems. Running on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 540 servers with 16 Intel Itanium(r) 2 1.6 GHz processors, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 operating system achieved 1,238,579 tpmC (transactions per minute) with a price-performance ratio of $3.94/tpmC. 

According to the Oracle press release: “Our customers choose Oracle Database 10g on Lintel-based platforms to achieve the highest levels of OLTP performance while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum,” said Richard Sarwal, senior vice president of Systems Management, Oracle. “We are committed to providing enterprises with highly scalable databases and functionality to support the most demanding transaction processing, business intelligence and content management applications.” 

“The Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 540 servers are built to meet robust enterprise database demands with the industry’s highest reliability and performance in Linux environments. Designed with Fujitsu mainframe expertise, PRIMEQUEST servers are ideal for large-scale database systems and online transaction processing environments,” said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing for Fujitsu Computer Systems. 

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