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Eight-processor World Record Set with Four Sun Blade X6270 Module Nodes

The Oracle Database garnered another honor with the world record it set on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark with the SAP Enhancement Package 4 for ERP 6.0 (Unicode). Set on a cluster of four-node Sun Blade X6270 server module nodes, each with two Intel Xeon x5570 quad-core 2.93 GHz processors and running the Solaris 10 OS, the performance was near linear in scalability.

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Discusses Acquistion Delay, Financials, Competition in Interview

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he has no plans to spin off MySQL and expressed the urgent need to complete the $7.4 billion merger with Sun. Ellison made these remarks during an interview conducted by former Motorola and Sun executive Ed Zander before a gathering of industry dignitaries in San Jose, Calif., on September 21, reported InfoWorld’s Paul Krill. Ellison did say that Sun is losing about $100 million a month with the delay from European regulators on the buyout of Sun.

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Sun Fire Server and Oracle Database Top IBM, HP/Microsoft

The Sun Fire X4270 server and the Oracle 10g have set a world-record result for a two-processor system on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, outperforming IBM System 550 server and DB2 as well as HP ProLiant BL460c G6 and Microsoft SQL Server. The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark measures the system performance to process dialog steps and order line item postings per hour for SAP solution-based transactions.

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