Oracle Is the Clear Winner for Deploying, SOA, Web Services and Business Critical Enterprise Application: Oracle today announced that Oracle(R) Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 10g Release 2, set a record-breaking result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark. This achievement builds on Oracle's commitment of providing customers with the highest performing and most scalable Java Application Server. Oracle has a history of world records in Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server benchmarks, as Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 continues to outperform rivals BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, the industry's only grid-ready application server, together with Oracle Database 10g Release 2, achieved a world record performance result of 6812.79 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). The database was running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 32 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 1.6 GHz processors. The J2EE application servers were 11 HP Integrity rx3600 servers each with 2 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 1.6 GHz processors. Both database and application server machines were running the HP-UX 11i v2 operating environment. Oracle's world record result outperformed the best SPECJAppServer2004 result from BEA WebLogic. In addition, this winning combination of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 surpassed the best IBM WebSphere with IBM DB2 UDB 9.1 SPECjAppServer2004 result by more than 55 percent. "Oracle's customers run some of the largest and most sophisticated Java- based applications in the world and rely on the high performance and scalability of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance at Oracle. "This benchmark is further validation that Oracle delivers the premier application server on which to develop, integrate, deploy and manage business critical enterprise applications, portals and Web services." Over the past five years, Oracle has submitted record-setting application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. Oracle is the performance and price/performance leader in multiple SPECjAppServer 2001 and SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark categories and also holds the world records for best performance and price/performance in the ECperf benchmark of J2EE application servers reported in July 2002. SPECjAppServer2004 is a client/server benchmark for measuring the performance of a representative J2EE application and each of the components that make up the application environment, including hardware, application server software, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers, and the system network. The workload is an application that emulates information flow among an automotive dealership, manufacturing, supply chain management, and an order/inventory system.