fdiaz2day Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Just weeks after a Windows server took top spot in a key speed test for the first time, a new IBM computer has won the crown back for Unix. IBM's p690 Turbo Unix server, newly overhauled with faster processors and other components, posted a score of 681,000 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C test. It edged ahead of the 658,000 score posted two weeks ago by Hewlett-Packard's Superdome running Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system. "I saw (Microsoft CEO) Steve Ballmer stand in front of a German audience and crow that they had TPC-C bragging rights. Well, they don't," RedMonk analyst James Governor said. Microsoft isn't the only company taking a hit from the test result. Big Blue has long used Oracle's database software for its TPC-C testing, but in a significant strategic shift, the company this time used its own DB2 product. Read More: CNET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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