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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 8, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 36
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Breaking News -
General:
BEA Provides 69 Percent Cost
Advantage Over WebSphere
BEA Systems Inc, a leading application infrastructure software company,
announced that BEA WebLogic Server, a leading enterprise application server,
has set record-breaking price/performance results that prove that BEA can
provide a 69 percent cost advantage over IBM. Benchmark testing was conducted
using technology that is generally available to all enterprise customers
today.
According to a recent SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark, an independently
designed
and validated industry-standard benchmark that measures the performance of
application servers running typical Java business applications, BEA WebLogic
Server achieved higher performance results with 131 percent more throughput
and 69 percent less lower cost per transaction than IBM WebSphere. The
benchmark configuration was conducted on generally available hardware and
software including BEA WebLogic Server and BEA WebLogic JRockit running on HP
ProLiant servers running 32-bit Intel Xeon processors. The price/performance
metric takes into account the total cost of all hardware, software and three
years of support.
These results are powerful evidence of BEA's commitment to proving high-
performance, vendor-neutral, and total-cost-of-ownership advantages over the
competition. In fact, BEA WebLogic Server has achieved world-record benchmarks
on the widest variety of hardware, operating systems and databases, including:
server hardware from Dell, HP and Sun on processors ranging from PA-RISC to
SPARC to Intel-based 32-bit and 64; all leading operating systems including
HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows; and a range of databases from Oracle to
Microsoft SQLServer.
"These benchmarks show BEA WebLogic Server to be the industry's fastest and
most cost effective application infrastructure platform," said Eric Stahl,
director of product marketing at BEA Systems. "Through increased performance,
customers need to buy less hardware, software licenses and support to process
the same number of users and transactions. Customers lured to free or low cost
alternatives actually increase their TCO when the application is put into
production."
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