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Top Price/Performance Honors Achieved Running BEA WebLogic Server with MySQL Open Source Database on Solaris-Based Systems With Opteron Processors.

Sun Microsystems has reached its results of a SPECjAppServer2002 performance test running BEA WebLogic server on Solaris 9 OS for x86 with MySQL open source database. The test results have established Sun as delivering the leading price/performance combination on the market. This hardware and software combination warrants faster ROI (return on investment) and lower cost of ownership than competing solutions.

Additionally, BEA is one of several key independent software vendors (ISVs) that have announced support for their applications on the Solaris OS on x86 systems, demonstrating the continued growth within the Solaris x86 ecosystem and choice of low-cost solutions.

SPECjAppServer2002 is a client/server benchmark measuring the performance of an application server. The configuration used to achieve the new record results included two Sun Fire V20z with 2 AMD Opteron processor running BEA WebLogic application server software and one Sun Fire V40z with 4 AMD Opteron processors hosting MySQL database. As a result, Sun demonstrated the best price/performance of all environments tested, including those from IBM and HP. The combination of Solaris x86 and AMD Opteron CPUs delivered 58 percent higher performance than a comparable solution from HP running RedHat Linux, at half of the price.

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