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In another milestone for the world's leading application infrastructure software company, BEA Systems, Inc. announced that BEA WebLogic Server and BEA WebLogic JRockit, running on HP Integrity rx4640 servers with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), set a new record more than tripling the previous DualNode category performance results using the industry-standard SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark. This independent benchmark measured the performance and cost of the application server, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), operating system, database and hardware that run typical business applications. The benchmark results demonstrate that BEA WebLogic and HP Integrity Servers can reduce the total cost of ownership of projects by reducing the total amount of hardware, software and services needed to run an application. The new benchmark continues BEA's long-standing tradition of providing superior performance at a competitive cost. The record benchmark results were achieved by running BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and BEA WebLogic JRockit 1.4.2 on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, using two 4-way HP Integrity rx4640 servers with Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 micro architecture, and HP StorageWorks Modular SmartArray 30. This configuration delivered 1305.04 TOPS@DualNode (Total Operations Per Second) at a cost of 218.28 US$/TOPS@DualNode. The term TOPS is the primary SPECjAppServer2002 measurement and denotes the average number of business operations per second completed during the measurement interval. "This new benchmark demonstrates once again performance and cost gains provided by BEA's technologies, in combination with fellow industry-leaders HP and Intel. BEA now holds records in both the multi-node and dual-node benchmark categories," said Eric Stahl, director of product marketing at BEA Systems. "We are enabling customers to benefit from more scalable enterprise application infrastructure at a lower cost than ever." "Today's new benchmark result reiterates the leading performance of HP Integrity servers using Intel Itanium2 architecture to run Java workloads," said Vish Mulchand, director of marketing, Business Critical Systems at HP. "The HP Integrity rx4640 server provides customers exceptional performance, price/performance, reliability, and availability, and this result adds to the impressive portfolio of number one performance benchmarks results achieved on HP Integrity servers." "BEA WebLogic JRockit is the only Java Virtual Machine specifically optimized for Intel architecture, including Intel Xeon(TM) processors and Itanium processors," said David L. Brown, general manager, Solutions Enabling Division, Intel Corporation. "This new benchmark is another proof point of the benefits of deploying Java-based applications on a combination of BEA WebLogic application infrastructure and Intel Itanium 2-based platforms for large-scale, enterprise-level applications." As an example of mission-critical, high volume transaction processing, TrueLink, a provider of consumer credit management solutions based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., uses BEA WebLogic Server to optimize the performance of applications and services on Intel-based servers and the Linux operating system. BEA WebLogic Server offers the scalability, high availability, integrated development environment and strict adherence to standards that make it a superior foundation on which TrueLink can build for the future, bring products to market rapidly, and simplify business integration. "Faster and easier-to-use application infrastructure has led to lower costs," said Scott Metzger, chief technology officer at TrueLink. "We evaluated free and lower-cost application infrastructure software options, but found that using BEA WebLogic software has helped us save nearly $600,000 in costs in the first year alone, and we expect to recoup the full cost of the software, including license fees and staff time, in roughly nine months." For complete details on benchmark results, please see the SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) Web site at http://www.spec.org/ , or read BEA's summary of the benchmark at www.bea.com/benchmark/feb04.