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Sybase, IBM Set Transaction Processing Record for Linux

Sybase Inc., a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, and IBM have announced that IBM System p5 520 and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) for Linux set a new transaction processing performance record for 2-core systems by delivering 81,439 transactions per minute the TPC-C benchmark.

"The new configuration shows how IBM System p with Linux on POWER running Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise delivers a high-performance, cost-effective transaction processing Linux database platform," said David Jacobson, senior director, strategic alliances, Sybase.

This new record beats the previous 2-core HP/Itanium2 and Oracle 10g performance record for Linux by 58 percent. It also beats the previous 2-core HP/Opteron and Microsoft SQL Server performance record and is less expensive by 23 percent.


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