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Sun Achieves Leading Application Server Benchmark Results

Sun Microsystems Inc announced the results of a SPECjAppServer2002 performance test running BEA WebLogic server on Solaris 9 OS for x86 with MySQL open source database. The test results have established Sun as delivering the leading price/performance combination on the market. This hardware and software combination warrants faster ROI (return on investment) and lower cost of ownership than competing solutions.

Additionally, BEA is one of several key independent software vendors (ISVs) that have announced support for their applications on the Solaris OS on x86 systems, demonstrating the continued growth within the Solaris x86 ecosystem and choice of low-cost solutions.

SPECjAppServer2002 is a client/server benchmark measuring the performance of an application server. The configuration used to achieve the new record results included two Sun Fire V20z with 2 AMD Opteron processor running BEA WebLogic application server software and one Sun Fire V40z with 4 AMD Opteron processors hosting MySQL database. As a result, Sun demonstrated the best price/performance of all environments tested, including those from IBM and HP. The combination of Solaris x86 and AMD Opteron CPUs delivered 58 percent higher performance than a comparable solution from HP running RedHat Linux, at half of the price. The full results of the test are available at www.spec.org/jAppServer2002/results/jAppServer2002.html#MultipleNode.

About SPECjAPPServer2002

SPEC has designed the SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark to exercise the Java application server, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), as well as the server hardware. Joining the client-side SPECjvm98 and the server-side SPECjbb2000 benchmarks, SPECjAppServer2002 continues the SPEC tradition of providing Java users the most objective and representative benchmarks for measuring a system's ability to run Java applications. As a true J2EE application the benchmark will require a functional database and a web server, but the benchmark has been designed so that these two functions can be combined on a single system.

About Sun Microsystems Inc

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com/.