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The low cost, high performance value leader for Oracle customers, Sun Microsystems announced a world record SPECjAppServer[r] 2002 benchmark running Oracle Application Server 10g on a heterogeneous Sun configuration. The world record performance was obtained on a multi-tier operating system and processor architecture, which blended both the Sun Fire(TM) 6800 midframe server powered by the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS), with the SPARC[r] processor architecture, and the Sun Fire V65x server, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with the latest x86 chip technology. This is the first SPECjAppServer 2002 record performance established on a heterogeneous chip architecture, and boasts a 36 percent improvement in price-performance over a competing UNIX[r] vendor's record, established on a homogeneous, Intel-based platform. The announcement follows a watershed moment for the Sun-Oracle alliance set on May 19 in San Francisco when Scott McNealy, Sun's Chairman, President, and CEO, and Larry Ellison, Oracle's Chairman and CEO, reaffirmed their commitment to attack cost and complexity and extend choice, value and enterprise-level features in the low-cost computing space. The Sun and Oracle record-breaking SPECjAppServer2002 MultipleNode benchmark achieved 2,408.73 TOPS@MultipleNode at 700.07 US$/TOPS@MultipleNode. The benchmark configuration included a seven-node Sun Fire V65x server cluster, each equipped with two Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, and linked to the SPARC-based Sun Fire 6800 database server running Oracle Application Server 10g. This world record result represents the highest SPECjAppServer2002 result in any category, beating the nearest competitor in both performance and price performance. Oracle Application Server 10g is a fully compliant, J2EE technology-based application server, and helps demonstrate the role of Java technology in this high performance/low cost benchmark. SPECjAppServer2002, a Java technology-based enterprise application server multi-tier benchmark, is the only industry accepted benchmark to measure performance of J2EE technology-based solutions, and is designed to model a typical Fortune 500 manufacturing business. The SPECjAppServer 2002 benchmark exercises the Java enterprise application server and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and leverages J2EE APIs to connect to a database. SPECjAppServer2002 expresses performance in terms of two metrics. The first metric is TOPS (Total Operations Per Second), which is determined by the number of order transactions plus the number of manufacturing work orders divided by the measurement period in second. The second metric is Price/TOPS, the price of the System Under Test (including hardware, software, and support) divided by the TOPS.