Red Hat Linux Trumps Unix on TPC Price/Performance Test
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When it comes to fast and cheap, looks like the RHEL 5 Advanced Platform is the clear winner...
"In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest competitor.
"The San Francisco-based Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), which performs benchmark tests of database transactions, validated Red Hat's processing of 1.2 million transactions per minute on an IBM System x 3950M2 with the new Intel X7460 Xeon processor... [Read more...]"
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Submitted Community Manager on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:24.
