Sydney, Australia — 11 July 2006 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, and IBM today announced that IBM System p5 520 and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise® (ASE) for Linux set a new transaction processing performance record for 2-core systems by delivering 81,439 transactions per minute (tpmC) on the leading TPC-C benchmark.
“The new configuration shows how IBM System p with Linux on POWER running Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise delivers a high-performance, cost-effective transaction processing Linux database platform,” said David Jacobson, senior director, strategic alliances, Sybase. “Sybase is committed to Linux and has teamed with IBM to deliver superior capabilities using Linux on POWER.”
“The superior performance of this configuration shows the quality of the technology created by both IBM and Sybase,” said Per Larsen, vice president, marketing and strategy, IBM Systems Group. “We are very excited about the results for the Linux platform.”
This new record beats the previous 2-core HP/Itanium2 and Oracle 10g performance record for Linux by 58 percent. It also beats the previous 2-core HP/Opteron and Microsoft SQL Server performance record and is less expensive by 23 percent.
Product Availability
The benchmarked configuration is expected to be available December 22, 2006. For more information about Sybase ASE, please visit: http://www.sybase.com/ase.
About IBM
IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com. For more information on IBM’s on demand strategy, visit ttp://www.ibm.com/ondemand.
About Sybase
Sybase is the largest enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilising information from the data centre to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. The world’s most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. Sybase ANZ is headquartered in Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, Canberra and Wellington, New Zealand. For more information visit www.sybase.com.au or www.sybase.co.nz.
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1. Based on IBM TPC-C results of 81,439 tpmC, 2.99 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 12/22/06 and runs on a p5-520 Model 9131-520 running Sybase Adaptive Server on SUSe Linux 9.
2. HP Integrity TPC-C result of 51,506 tpmC, 1.81 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 09/29/04, running on a Integrity rx2600 running Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3. HP ProLiant DL385 G1 2.8 GHz/2P result of 76,214 tpmC, 3.91 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 11/08/05, running on Microsoft SQL Server running on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition. Source: http://www.tpc.org
3. All statements regarding future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
Adaptive Server Enterprise is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc.
Special Note: Statements concerning Sybase’s product releases are by nature forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include shifts in customer demand, rapid technological changes, availability of third party content, competitive factors and unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability. Some of the risks are detailed from time to time in Sybase’s SEC filings, including its annual and quarterly reports, which can be viewed at www.sybase.com.
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