High-end Microsoft stack cheaper than TPC comparison
ENT News | at | by Mike
The price difference between extremely high-end Windows-based systems and extremely high-end Unix-based systems isn't as close as a recent Transaction Processing Performance Council TPC-C benchmark implies.
Since the server is the same, this is a pretty good one-to-one comparison of a Microsoft stack versus an HP-UX/Oracle stack on performance and price, right? Not so fast. For one thing, HP splurged on higher-end storage and used HP-UX/PA-RISC servers as clients, adding significant expense to its configuration. It's unclear what effect that had on performance, but it definitely lifted the cost of the total configuration for HP and Oracle by about $1 million.