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PLEASANTON, CA -- PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT) today announced record benchmark results for the PeopleSoft 8 Enterprise Portal. The benchmark reportedly demonstrates PeopleSoft's industry-leading performance and scalability by supporting web traffic of more than 1,000 hits per second at peak loads on a million user PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal system. These record results were achieved using a Hewlett-Packard Company HP Superdome server running HP-UX 11i with IBM's DB2 Universal Database. "The record benchmark results demonstrate PeopleSoft's technology leadership in the enterprise portal space," said Peter Gassner, vice president and general manager of the PeopleTools technology division at PeopleSoft. "With this breakthrough performance, the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal delivers a platform that scales to support portal requirements of the largest enterprises." The benchmark included a simulation of end users accessing the PeopleSoft Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS). The self-service processes included: accessing the system via single sign-on; authenticating via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); viewing personalized role-based home page; completing an HRMS self-service transaction; and logging off the portal. "The benchmark, with the HP Superdome server's outstanding performance and scalability, delivers industry-leading eBusiness application results that meet the expectations of our customers for global portal deployments," said Nigel Ball, vice president and general manager, HP E-Services Partner Division. "The PeopleSoft 8 pure internet portal applications enable customers to achieve dramatic improvements in business processes by integrating customers, suppliers, and employees. The HP Superdome server, part of the HP 9000 family, is an ideal platform for productivity-enhancing, high-payoff applications such as PeopleSoft 8." The benchmark was conducted with the scalable IBM DB2 Universal Database 7.1 on a single HP 9000 Superdome server running HP-UX 11i. BEA Systems Weblogic Server 5.1 was used as the web application server and iPlanet Directory Server 4.13 was used as the LDAP directory server. All components of the million-user environment were deployed on a single HP Superdome server. Mercury Interactive Loadrunner running on HP Netserver servers running Windows NT 4.0 was used to simulate the user workload. At peak volumes of 1,133 hits per second, the directory and database servers averaged 21 percent CPU utilization across one 4-CPU partition, the web servers averaged 49 percent CPU utilization across three 4-CPU partitions, the application server averaged 90 percent CPU utilization across two 24-CPU partitions, and the average user response time was less than three seconds. The iPlanet directory server and PeopleSoft 8 HRMS database consisted of standard data composition models for one million portal users. "The results demonstrated in this benchmark record clearly demonstrate IBM's strength and commitment to supporting PeopleSoft applications on a broad range of platforms," said Jim Kelly, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "DB2's industry-leading performance, scalability and low cost of ownership allows PeopleSoft customers to implement the best software infrastructure available on a variety of IBM and non-IBM platforms." PeopleSoft's industry-leading role-based portal solutions provide a single, integrated environment for aggregating critical business information from multiple sources. PeopleSoft Portal Solutions deliver customers, suppliers and employees tailored information that can be easily accessed using a standard web browser. For more information visit www.peoplesoft.com/go/portal.