Can you remember our blog post about the "Solaris Factor"? There we already shown the great advantage of Solaris for SAP systems. The new benchmark of our new X4640 system (available very soon, great Christmas present!) has underlined the great advantage of Solaris/Oracle. Let's have a look at the numbers:

• HP ProLiant DL785 G6, 8 Processors / 48 Cores / 48 Threads, Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8439 SE, 2.8 Ghz, 128 KB L1 cache and 512 KB L2 cache per core, 6 MB L3 cache per processor, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2008, 8280 SD-User, 45.350 SAPS, Certificate 2009035
• HP ProLiant DL785 G6, 8 Processors / 48 Cores / 48 Threads, Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8439 SE, 2.8 Ghz, 128 KB L1 cache and 512 KB L2 cache per core, 6 MB L3 cache per processor, SuSE Linux, MaxDB 7.8, 8.022 SD-User, 43.880 SAPS,Certificate 2009052
• Sun Fire X4640, 8 Processors / 48 Cores / 48 Threads, Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8435, 2.6 Ghz, 128 KB L1 cache and 512 KB L2 cache per core, 6 MB L3 cache per processor, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, 10.000 SD-User, 55.070 SAPS, Certificate 2009049

Cool! Solaris leads into 25% more performance than Linux and 21% more performance than Windows.

And for those who really read the certificates carefully: Very cool! Solaris with 2.6 GHz CPUs achieves into 25% more performance than Linux with 2.8 GHz CPUs!

The Solaris benchmark used "smaller" CPUs with 200MHz less clockrate. So it's - once again - a strong evidence: Solaris is the best platform for SAP.

Summer is allways the right time for cool things. In this summer Sun in Germany provides four very cool webinars about Sun and Solaris (all in german language):

On June 17, Joerg Meiners - one of the active contributors of the SAP on Sun Community - talks about Adaptive Oracle Grid using Solaris Container. You can already find a whitepaper by him about this topic in our SAP on Sun Wiki.

On June 24, Rolf Kersten - one of the most present members of the Systemhelden Community - talks about MySQL Performance on Sun Fire Servers with Intel Xeon 5500 (aka Nehalem).

On July 8, Joerg Moellenkamp - you maybe know his blog c0t0d0s0.org - talks about "Less known Solaris Features". The Less know Solaris Features are also available as a great whitpaper/tutorial on c0t0d0s0.org.

And on August 26, Volker Wetter - another active contributors of the SAP on Sun Community - talks about "10 Reasons to run your application on Solaris". Of course, you can also find his presentation (with a focus on SAP) in our SAP on Sun Wiki.

The webinars will be presented via WebEX, please register for free!