HP with Windows Server 2003 is 45% better then Unix
ENT News | at | by Mike
A day after Microsoft and NEC Corp. reached the top of the Transaction Processing Performance Council's OLTP benchmark raw performance list, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard smashed that record. The HP/Microsoft/Intel test achieved 658,277 tpmC (transactions per minute on the TPC-C test). That's a 28 percent performance boost over the 514,035 tpmC submitted to the TPC by NEC/Microsoft/Intel on Wednesday. The result is also a 45 percent bump in performance over a 128-processor result run by Fujitsu on Sparc processors and Solaris back in 2001, which was the No. 1 result until Wednesday.
The 64-processor HP Superdome server, the backbone of a $6.4-million configuration, did well on Windows servers' traditional stronghold of price performance as well, registering a price per tpmC of $9.82.