SUN FIRE V880 SERVER SETS WORLD RECORD FOR PRICE/PERFORMANCE AND BEST PERFORMANCE ON LOTUS DOMINO BENCHMARKSSUN FIRE V880 SERVER SETS WORLD RECORD FOR PRICE/PERFORMANCE AND BEST PERFORMANCE ON LOTUS DOMINO BENCHMARKSSun Again Proves Solaris-Based Servers Lead Industry on Performance and Price/Performance on Two More Benchmarks: Lotus iNotes and R5Mail
SANTA CLARA, CA -- January 29, 2002 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced its Sun Fire V880 server's world-record results running the Lotus Domino NotesBench iNotes and R5Mail benchmarks. Delivering the first eight-way, all-UNIX® iNotes results, the Sun Fire V880 server and the Solaris Operating Environment surpassed the IBM/AIX solution by supporting 24 percent more iNotes users and demonstrating record-setting price/performance by supporting nearly twice the number of users per dollar. On a completely different R5Mail benchmark, the Sun Fire V880 server delivered the lowest cost per user and a response time that was twice as fast as the nearest competitor. Featuring the Solaris OE, eight UltraSPARC III 750 MHz processors and 16 GB of memory, the Sun Fire V880 server deftly handled a realistic workload of 6,200 users accessing iNotes mails, while the IBM pSeries 620 Model 6F1 only supported 5,000 users. Furthermore, the Sun Fire V880 server on the Solaris platform also successfully demonstrated the best price/performance in the market for Lotus Domino at a cost of only $17.78 per user, compared to the IBM pSeries/AIX solution, which required more than double the cost per user at $39.21. Solaris is the number one operating environment for network servers and is a key component of the company's Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) - the vision, architecture, platform and expertise for developing Services on Demand today. Using the Solaris OE on every server in a datacenter can offer dramatic savings in administration costs as compared to mixed operating system configurations. Running the same configuration on R5Mail, the Sun Fire V880 server supported 20,000 users accessing Notes mails as well as calendaring and scheduling. The Sun Fire V880 server delivered the lowest cost per user in the market at a cost of $8.80, compared to the Compaq 8500 solution at $12.62. The Sun Fire V880 also bested the field with a response time of .122 seconds. These new industry-leading results, in addition to Sun's world-record price/performance results running the Lotus Webmail benchmark, clearly illustrate the power and scalability of Sun's 64-bit software and hardware architectures. The Sun Fire V880 server, which has turned out to be Sun's fastest selling server following its introduction in October 2001, is ideal for supporting large commercial implementations of Lotus Domino mail server for customers across a wide range of markets, including financial services, service providers, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, government, health care and education. Benchmark DescriptionsThe Lotus Domino iNotes workload simulated 6,200 active users accessing their Domino® iNotes mail files via a standard Web browser on the Sun Fire V880 server, running benchmark version NotesBench 5.0.8 on Lotus Domino 5.0.8. Each simulated user periodically reads, deletes and sends a specified number of e-mail messages. The iNotes workload generates about three times the workload on the server than the R5Mail benchmarks, due to the open thin clients and the stateless nature of the HTTP protocol. The R5Mail workload simulated 20,000 users reading, sending, categorizing and deleting their Domino® iNotes mail files as well as creating and sending meeting invitations to a specified number of users. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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