Windows Strikes Back at Unix: #1 at TPC-C again
ENT News | at | by Mike
HP hoisted its Superdome-Itanium-Windows combination to the top of the premier OLTP scalability benchmark on Tuesday, about a month after originally gaining the top spot and little more than a week after IBM displaced the combo with a system based on its own AIX/RISC/DB2 stack.
By matching HP's Superdome result on May 9, IBM showed that Unix/RISC will not go down easy now that Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition and Itanium 2 processors can scale in SMP configurations. By responding quickly on Tuesday, HP, Microsoft and Intel are showing that the Wintel partners are willing to fight for TPC-C bragging rights.
Oracle and Sun have stayed out of this benchmark battle so far, choosing instead to criticize the current legitimacy of a benchmark that both vendors used extensively in the past. [losers......]