Oracle Fusion Middleware shows highest performance for x86-based system

They set a best-in-class single node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark, according to the company. Both were running on Rackable Systems C2002 high efficiency servers powered by dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz processors on Linux. “This benchmark reconfirms that Oracle Application Server provides customers with industry leading performance and scalability, in addition to being the best platform to develop, integrate, deploy and manage business critical enterprise applications, portals and Web services,” says Juan Loaiza, Oracle senior vice president, Systems Technology. Over the past five years, Oracle has submitted record-setting application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. 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.