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Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Industry Applications and Oracle 10gR2 DB on sun sparc Enterprise T5120/T5220 Servers Running the Solaris 10 OS: This paper describes the performance and scalability capabilities of Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management CRM Applications Release 8.0. The benchmark comprised 10,000 concurrent users running Siebel CRM Release 8.0 industry applications and Oracle 10gR2 DB on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 Servers. All servers ran the Solaris 10 operating system. Oracle's...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Solaris 10, Performance, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Industry, Scalability, Siebel Systems Inc., Sun Sparc, CRM, Sun Solaris, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86: Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86CoolthreadsI'm beginning to doubt whether Coolthreads is really all it's cracked up to be. The problem is the performance boost seems to assume that you have a very parallelizable problem. In practice, this means you either have code that has been intentionally written to...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Processors, Servers, T2000, hardware, Sun Sparc, Sun Solaris; Discussion threads 2007-12-06
Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86: I ran into a little story on siliconrepblic.com last week which started like this: Cost drives firms from UNIX to Linux 28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for...; Tags: Staffing, Performance, Intel X86, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Sparc, Lintel, FTE, Linux Thing, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Solaris vs AIX: The threatscape: The "threatscape" concept says in part that things which affect key suppliers affect your costs - i.e. that the possibility that Exxon might be motivated to buy out and shut down Sun has cost implications for the data center manager choosing whether to bet the business on Solaris/SPARC or AIX/Power....; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Sun Sparc, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Linux, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-10-24
Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power (1): Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power (1)Thing is..I don't know if IBM care if AIX survives but Sun is desperate to re-invent Solaris to look and handle and "feel good" like Linux.AIX has fewer apps ported but it has very steady market share. Solaris has lost moreproportionate market share to Linux. Linux has...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, search function, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, AIX/Power, Sparc V, Sun Sparc; Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power: Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM's AIX on Power offerings and Sun's Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a technology decision - thus both abrograting and announcing the intended decision. What do you do? ...; Tags: Application, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, Sun Sparc, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, AIX 5L V5.1, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-10-17
Maximize It Service Uptime by Utilizing Dependable sun sparc Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers provide excellent Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability RAS characteristics, ideal for maximizing the uptime of business-critical IT services. Highly reliable parts and a relatively low total component count minimize the opportunity for system errors. In addition, these servers include core and thread offlining capabilities,...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Uptime, Sun Sparc, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-10-01
sun sparc Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Server Architecture: Delivering on the demands of Web 2.0 applications and virtualized, eco-efficient data centers requires a comprehensive approach that includes innovative processors, system platforms, and operating systems, along with leading application, middleware, and management technology. With its strong technology positions and R&D investments in all of these areas, Sun is in...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Sparc, Processors, Web 2.0, Data Centers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Internet, Storage, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-01
BottomFeeder (exe): BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client RSS and Atom written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. BottomFeeder runs on Linux x86, also FreeBSD, PowerPC Linux, Sparc Linux, Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE 4), Mac OS8/9, Mac OS X PPC, AIX, SGI Irix, HP-UX, and Solaris (SPARC and x86). Version 4.4 features revamped user interface.; Tags: Cincom Systems Inc., Intel X86, Sun Sparc, BottomFeeder, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Open Source, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2007-07-20
Sell magic: Sell magicWrong again, MurphWe're buying AMD64 machines for two reasons:1) They run the software that we need for our business2) At over $100K/cpu license, the [b]last[/b] thin we need is massively parallel at lower per/cpu performance.Power6 would be better for (2) but runs up against (1). SPARC (which until...; Tags: Processors, DSP, Cell, CPU, software, processor, Sun Sparc, game; Discussion threads 2007-07-18
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of sun sparc , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms: The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable, dynamic infrastructure. High Performance Computing HPC is constantly finding new application in both science and...; Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, AMD Opteron, Sun Blade, Sun Sparc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Agility, Participation Age, Data Centers, Storage, Blade Servers, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-06-01
Photos: Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers: Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu launch their jointly designed Sparc Enterprise Server family, the new name for the Advanced Product Line partnership.; Tags: Servers, Sun Sparc, enterprise server, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Fujitsu Ltd., photograph; Image galleries 2007-04-16
Sun's training problem: Sun's training problemIf Sun's equipment is soooo fast.....After all "Sun makes the biggest, fastest, most integrated SMP machines available from anyone"It amuses me to see that Cray,Dell,SGI,HP and IBM all have more Listings in the Top500.org than Sun. I think Sun makes good kit but if their kit was as...; Tags: UNIX, Processors, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Sparc, training, Sun Microsystems Inc., SMP, CPU, Sun Solaris; Discussion threads 2007-04-05
High Availability in the Datacenter: sun sparc Enterprise Servers: Sun understands that delivering highly available services is not enough. In order to meet cost objectives, businesses must also efficiently manage IT services. TCO is the result of the interaction of people, process, and product over the life cycle of a project and ultimately drives many investment decisions. Sun is...; Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., High Availability, Enterprise Server, TCO, Sun Sparc, Roi/Tco, Servers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware; White papers 2007-04-01
sun sparc Enterprise Servers System and Resource Management: The next generation Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are the most powerful systems offered by Sun Microsystems. Though the importance of performance is indisputable, fast platforms alone are not enough to respond to the continually changing demands of today's high-pressure, globally competitive, cost-sensitive business and technical environments. Sophisticated system, resource, and...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Enterprise Server, Sun Sparc, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-04-01
sun sparc Enterprise Server Family Architecture Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power: Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with all of the benefits of traditional mainframes and none of the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in. In fact, Sun SPARC Enterprise servers deliver mainframe-class system architecture at open systems prices. With Symmetric MultiProcessing SMP scalability from...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Enterprise Server, Sun Sparc, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-04-01
Only 256 threads? naaaa: Only 256 threads? naaaaIssue the ps commandon a million threads - and then wait, and wait, and wait while a million+ lines scroll by. It certainly would break most every script ever written . . . Even 256 processes is more than you would want to see. If those threads/processes...; Tags: Processors, Sun Sparc, CPU; Discussion threads 2007-01-23
Sun takes aim at Red Hat with Solaris 10: Sun takes aim at Red Hat with Solaris 10Very nice, I'm sureHowever, Sun has a fundamental problem in the hardware dimension. They don't have much in the way of driver support for inexpensive platforms, their hardware though good is pricy, and outside of the basic AMP stack they don't...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Processors, Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, hardware, CDE, Sun Sparc, Red Hat Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Solaris 10; Discussion threads 2007-01-16
MacTel: "the real story": MacTel: "the real story"Backwards CompatibilityBackwards compatibility is important for the most widely used operating system in the world. Gee, go figure... All the haters out there continue to criticize MS but we would not be where we are today without Microsoft. What most likely you are going to see is...; Tags: Processors, Games, Backwards-Compatibility, Intel Itanium, Cell, Intel x86, Microsoft Corp., PPC, Sun Sparc, performance, river, Sony PlayStation 3; Discussion threads 2006-12-15
Sun, Fujitsu promise Sparc speed surge: Sun, Fujitsu promise Sparc speed surgecoolsounds good. i've got an old U60 myself with two cores and the performance on that is excellent, considering it's age. i'd love to get my hands on one of these.; Tags: Sun Sparc, Fujitsu Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-10-11