From:"Oracle Corporation" <Oracle_Corporation.UM.A.6.1975@em10.net>
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Subject: Unbreakable Linux at 50% Off - from Oracle
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:47:01 -0500 This message is brought to you as a valued subscriber of SOFTWARE
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Everyone knows Linux costs less. Now it’s faster and more reliable, too. With Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, you can create an unbreakable Linux environment at an incredible price.

Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters is the Transaction Processing Council’s TPC-C 32-processor cluster performance and price/performance leader on Linux and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. In fact, Oracle on Linux is 14% faster and 8% less expensive than Microsoft SQL Server 2000’s best result on identical processors and memory.* And, with a new open-source version of the Oracle Cluster File System for Linux, managing Oracle9i Real Application Clusters is easier than ever.

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*As of September 17, 2002: HP ProLiant DL580R, with 32 Intel Pentium III 900 MHz processors, Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, 138,362.03 (Oracle best 32 processor cluster result - original publication date 9/16/02), $17.38/tpmC, available 03/05/03 (1). HP ProLiant DL580R, with 32 Intel Pentium III 900 MHz processors, Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 137,260.89 tpmC, $18.27/tpmC, available 9/6/02. IBM eServer xSeries 370 with 32 Intel Pentium III 900 MHz processors, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 121,319.23 tpmC (Microsoft best 32-processor cluster result - result withdrawn 9/17/02), $18.97 tpmC, available 5/31/01 (2). The TPC-C is an OLTP (online transaction processing) benchmark developed by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The TPC-C benchmark defines a rigorous standard for calculating performance and price/performance measured by transaction per minute (tpmC) and $/tpmC, respectively. Source: Transaction Processing Council (TPC), http://www.tpc.org

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