Windows Server 2003 64-bit beats Unix big time
C|Net | at | by Mike
An NEC server with 32 of Intel's forthcoming Itanium 2 6M processors and running the Windows Server 2003 has secured the top spot in a widely watched performance measurement. Sun Microsystems refuses to submit TPC-C scores (because they lost big time [losers]).
The system, an NEC Express5800/1320Xc costing $5.9 million is the least expensive of the top 10 on the TPC-C list, displaced a 128-processor Unix server from Fujitsu.
But NEC's victory may not last long: Hewlett-Packard, a co-inventor and key supporter of Itanium, plans to announce its own speed results Thursday at the formal Windows Server 2003 launch in San Francisco, and sources expect it to beat NEC.