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[Nvyseal]

images/news/ibm.jpgOn Sunday night Larry Ellison took the stage at his annual event, Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, and came out swinging like a samurai warrior with a newly-sharpened sword. His main target: IBM.

Ellison basically said IBM deploys more servers than necessary, that IBM servers are power hogs (even though IBM talks a big game about being energy-friendly), and that a Sun-Oracle combination runs circles around IBM in performance.

Ellison showed off a new benchmark that reported:

* Sun-Oracle server configuration used 8x less hardware than IBM (in this comparison)
* Sun-Oracle server config ran 26% faster than IBM
* Sun-Oracle server config consumed 4x less energy than IBM
* Sun-Oracle server config had 16x better response time than IBM (1.22 seconds for IBM vs. 0.08 for Sun-Oracle)

I’m always wary of these types of benchmarks because they usually involve one company’s systems being highly-tuned and then comparing them to a competitor’s standard configuration. Nevertheless, Ellison said that he is so confident that this comparison will hold up that he’s launching a new program in which Oracle will pay customers $10 million if a Sun-Oracle configuration isn’t at least twice as fast as a comparable IBM solution.

Read the whole article on ZDNet

[m.oreilly]

chriso better get on the ball and start yelling at his jbods