BEA ANNOUNCES NEW WORLD RECORD BECNCHMARK.BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BEAS), San Jose, a world leader in application infrastructure software, has announced that, in a recent SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark test, BEA WebLogic Server(R) 8.1 and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. JRockit(TM) 1.4.2 produced a new world record in the dual node category on Langchao's record-setter - - SP3000 server. This new benchmark result is evidence of the BEA commitment to providing high performance at low total-cost-of-ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ) for customers, in partnership with industry-leading companies like Langchao, Intel and Red Flag. An independently designed and validated industry-standard benchmark, SPECjAppServer2002 measures the performance of application servers running typical Java business applications. The test results show that BEA WebLogic Server and JRockit achieved 1638 business transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed (TOPS@DualNode), on Langchao's high-end server SP3000, setting a new world record. In addition, the cost-effective business handling solution jointly launched by BEA and Langchao has seen a favorable price-performance ratio. The cost of each transaction is 1,185.73 RMB/ TOPS@DualNode, including cost of all hardware, software, and three years of 24 x 7 technical support. This is the best price performance ratio compared with similar products in China's market. The benchmark test was executed on a software and hardware platform, including BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and BEA JRockit(TM) 1.4.2, as well as Langchao SP3000 server (database and server) running on Intel (R)Itanium(R)2 64 bit processor. This benchmark is one more milestone in a long BEA record of providing superior performance and scalability. In fact, nearly all benchmark results of BEA WebLogic Server on nearly all mainstream hardware, operating systems and database products have set records, including the following: -- server hardware such as PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. , SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , 32 bit Intel(R) Xeon(TM) and 64 bit Itanium-architecture from Langchao, Dell, and HP -- all mainstream operating systems such as Windows, Linux, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and Solaris -- all types of database software such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. "These benchmark test results have strongly indicated that BEA WebLogic Server is among the most rapid and cost-effective application infrastructure platforms in this market. Customers have one more local brand option when they choose enterprise-level server," said Frank Xiong, vice president of BEA and general manager of China R&D Center. The BEA users, relying on higher productivity and unified platforms that BEA supplies to developers, can help shorten the time to value for implementation, thus further helping to reduce the total cost of ownership. "High-end business computer is an important strategic market for Langchao. We adhered to our technology, and attached great importance to cooperation with international vendors, so as to enhance the industrialization industrialization Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. The changes that took place in Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th century led the way for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and of China's high performance server," said Wang Endong, senior vice president of Langchao Group. "The joint record-breaking result is not only an indication of the better performance and quality of Langchao's high-end server, but also an important accomplishment as a result of Langchao's international cooperation strategy, a major step forward by Langchao in implementing business computing strategy." Minerva Yeung, Ph.D., director, Intel China Software Center, commented: "BEA and Chinese fellow travelers set the world performance record again on the WebLogic Application Server based on the Intel(R) Itanium(R)2 based processors. This shows the technology leadership and potentials of the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor architecture. It also demonstrates that Intel, BEA and their Chinese fellow-travelers are collaborating more and more closely to provide world class product combinations to the Chinese customers." About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA is a billion-dollar company with 75 offices in 36 countries. SPECjAppServer is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return Corp. (SPEC). Competitive claims reflect results published on http://www.spec.org as of December 14, 2004. For the latest SPECjAppServer2002 results visit http://www.spec.org/osg/jAppServer2002. For more information, call 415/819-3115 or visit http://www.bea.com. |
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