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Blogger Examines HP’s Claims, Defends Sun’s Performance Advantage

How valid are HP’s claims of pre-eminence in SAP SD benchmarks? In a Sun Performance and Best Practices blog, Guido Ficco comments on significant SAP SD 2   Tier results and HP claims. According to Ficco, HP’s claims rely on data skewed to establish their result. In defense of his position, Ficco cites the results for the latest version of SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode).

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Also, Sun T5440 with 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus Delivers Record Performance on Oracle BI EE

Oracle and Sun set a world record four-processor result on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP Enhancement Pack 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode). The system configuration was comprised of a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server equipped with four 1.6 GHz Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and the Oracle Database running on Solaris 10 for a result of 4,720 SAP SD Benchmark users.

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