SPEC Benchmarks

(February 11, 2003) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has revealed a new SPECjAppServer2001 world record benchmark. The Sun Fire V1280 system, running the Solaris Operating Environment, demonstrated its scalability in application serving workloads, as the only 12-way system to run this benchmark in the dual-node category to date. A 12-CPU 900MHz UltraSPARC III Cu Sun Fire V1280 system (application server hardware) and an 8-CPU 900MHz UltraSPARC III Cu Sun Fire V880 system (database server hardware) recorded 521.86 BOPS at US$1,133.64/BOPS, running the Oracle9I Application Server and Oracle9i Database. With the arrival in September 2002 of the SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark, the available tools for evaluating J2EE application servers have grown and improved. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has designed the SPECjAppServer 2001 benchmark to exercise the J2E... (more)

PowerBuilder News

POWERBUILDER PowerBuilder 9.0 3/24 - Sybase has released PowerBuilder 9.0, the industry-leading rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 9.0 enables developers to build rich client applications to meet their mission-critical business requirements, and features new capabilities for J2EE and Microsoft .NET environments. This release also lays the foundation for "4GL plus", an initiative under which subsequent versions of PowerBuilder will bring an even higher level of developer productivity through tight integration of design, modeling, development, deployment, and manageme... (more)

Project Tiger Unleashed: "Most Significant" Java Platform Release

Today at JavaOne, Sun Microsystems introduced Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0, which Sun calls " the most significant upgrade to the Java platform and programming language since its initial release nearly one decade ago." Known as Project Tiger, this updated Java platform offers dramatic ease of development, new application monitoring and management features, a dedicated focus on rich client support for the PC desktop, and record-breaking performance. Sun announced today the Beta 2 release of the J2SE 5.0 software development kit (JDK), which includes tools such as co... (more)

J2EE Benchmarking: BEA Sets New SPEC jAppServer2002 World Record

BEA announced it has established a new SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) jAppServer2002 world record. BEA's WebLogic Server 8.1 and JRockit 1.4.2 produced a new world record in the dual node category on LangChao's SP3000 server. jAppServer2002 is an independently designed and validated industry-standard benchmark that measures the performance of application servers running typical Java business applications. Created by SPEC, this particular client/server benchmark has been ported to use the J2EE 1.3 standard. The workload has not been enhanced to use any added f... (more)

WebSphere vs WebLogic: IBM and BEA Spar Over SPEC Results

Benchmarks can mean whatever you want them to mean, it has always seemed. Although useful as a rough guide to performance, and sometimes price/performance, technology companies are famous for interpreting complex benchmark results as victories over their competition and them employing visual aids such as planes, snails, and automobiles to demonstrate their point. The latest benchmark brouhaha may be over the newly developed SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark from SPEC (the Warrenton, VA-based Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.) This benchmark  is the latest in the "Java Client/Ser... (more)