BM Seer Unofficial thoughts from an anonymous Sun employee

Oracle & UltraSPARC T1 - Commercial databases and CMT are no problem

Thursday Aug 23, 2007

In the last posting we showed Oracle Database with SAP-SD benchmarks all running on a Sun Fire T2000. As Sun has been saying since Day one of CMT. Major databases are perfectly matched for UltraSPARC T1. By the way Sun has also used Open source databases on benchmarks as well.

We have lots of customers deploying RDBMS on UltraSPARC T1 and planning on UltraSPARC T2 servers. It really works well even though competitors and doubters want to try to say it is special purpose, sorry it isn't.

Here is an opinion:

    "Now Sun's T2 is out and it's pretty much the world beater they promised - 30% faster on SPEC throughput than IBM's 4.7 Ghz Dual core Power6 and, more significantly, one third the cost and somewhere between two and three times the throughput of the Itanium. ... anyone still buying HP-UX and Itanium after Rock comes out will be doing it because they hate Sun and are quietly hoping for a miracle, just as DEC's partisans (and HP's own MPE customer base) did before them." -- zdnet's Paul Murphy

    Source: "A Dumb prediction: IBM will Buy HP's Unix Customers," By Paul Murphy, zdnet, 08/17/07, http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=941

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Posted at 01:07PM Aug 23, 2007 in Benchmarks
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The below link comes up bad because of the "url:". fireFox says site not found, IE at least shows you the site it wants to bring up in a pop-up which is below.

url:%20http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=941

Posted by Bryan on August 23, 2007 at 01:31 PM PDT #

Thanks fixed it.

Posted by BM Seer on August 23, 2007 at 02:35 PM PDT #

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