I do not understand what the benchmark is trying to measure.
They claim to be measuring transactions per second. The industry standard for measuring transactional processing power is TPM (per minute), and the T applies to ACID transactions, which have absolutely nothing to do with application serving. See the Transaction Processing Council for more info.
Mixing apples and oranges in an attempt to confuse a few hapless MIS manager types.
I for one never disagreed that Windows is a fine application server. If nothing else, there's lots to serve. But as far as transactional processing, I would not bet my MIS career on M$
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The numbers are impressive, but available 12/07/00? I guess that makes it officially vaporware.
I imagine by then Sun and Oracle will have cooked up a fine response.
I guess M$ did this so they could be anywhere near the top in anything but cost/txn.
I do not understand what the benchmark is trying to measure.
They claim to be measuring transactions per second. The industry standard for measuring transactional processing power is TPM (per minute), and the T applies to ACID transactions, which have absolutely nothing to do with application serving. See the Transaction Processing Council for more info.
Mixing apples and oranges in an attempt to confuse a few hapless MIS manager types.
I for one never disagreed that Windows is a fine application server. If nothing else, there's lots to serve. But as far as transactional processing, I would not bet my MIS career on M$