REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Oracle Corp., the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced the fastest ever SPECjAppServer2001 result for Oracle9i Application Server. Oracle has submitted more benchmarks for Oracle9i Application Server, on the broadest range of hardware and software platforms, than any other vendor. This result underscores Oracle's sustained commitment to the performance and cost- effectiveness of its application server technology. To date, Oracle is the leader of Performance and Price/Performance in multiple SPECjAppServer2001 Benchmark categories and holds the world record for best Performance and Price/Performance in the ECperf benchmark of J2EE application servers. The following benchmark numbers for Oracle9i Application Server on HP rp8400 and Superdome servers represents the top MultipleNode SPECjAppServer2001 Performance result published to-date. Oracle and HP focused their benchmarking efforts on high-throughput dual and multi-node configurations, reflecting real-world configurations deployed by customers. Multiple Node - Best Performance: 2,529.10 BOPS (average number of successful business operations per second) with a price of 1,342.74 $/BOPS on HP rp8400 servers running with Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 and the HP-UX 11i operating system. "We've worked to demonstrate Oracle9i Application Server's performance and price/performance leadership on a wide variety of operating system and hardware configurations," said John Magee, vice president of Oracle9i Application Server marketing. "With Oracle9i Application Server, customers can deploy their middle-tier configurations in the way that best meets their performance or budget requirements." "This benchmark result is the direct outcome of the continued close work between Oracle and HP," said Vish Mulchand, worldwide product line manager, HP Business Critical Servers Group. "Once again, we've proven that the combination of HP's server platforms running Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server provides customers with a cost-effective, high-performance solution." Previous SPECjAppServer2001 results have also demonstrated the superior price/performance of Oracle9i Application Server: -- Multiple Node - Best Price/Performance: 558.85 BOPS with a price of 389.54 $/BOPS on second-generation HP's ProLiant ML530G2 server cluster running with Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 and the Linux operating system; -- Dual Node - Best Price/Performance: 183.33 BOPS with a price of 325.13 $/BOPS on HP ProLiant DL360 servers running with Oracle9i Application Release 2 and the Linux operating system; -- Dual Node - Best Performance: 521.86 BOPS with a price of 1133.64 $/BOPS on Sun Microsystems SunFire V1280 running with Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 and the Solaris operating system.