Oracle put the boot into IBM’s Power Systems last month but it may find its users are unimpressed. Oracle launched a new programme called Exa Your Power at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. The idea is to wean Oracle database users off their AIX-flavoured Power Systems hardware with proof-of-concept promises of 15 times better […]
WebSphere outpaces WebLogic on Power and Intel
IBM’s WebSphere Application Server on Power8 leaves Oracle’s equivalent offerings standing when it comes to speed, according to new figures. In the latest SPEC benchmarking tests, WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.2 running on a 24-core Power S824 beat WebLogic 12.1.3 Server running on a 32-core Oracle SPARC T5-2 by 76% per core. I.T.’s big beasts are […]
Indian institution jumps to Oracle/Power combo
India’s Council of Agricultural Research has made the jump from paper-based processes to an Oracle-on-Power ERP system supporting well over 100 sites. The ambitious project is something of a coup for IBM’s Global Business Services division. Partly funded by the World Bank, it is one of the first national ERP implementations by central government in […]
IBM’s AIX made the most money from Unix in Q2
IBM made the most cash from Unix servers in this year’s second quarter but Oracle sold the most machines. That’s according to an erudite analysis of the latest figures from Gartner by Timothy Prickett Morgan on EnterpriseTech. Prickett Morgan’s reading of the Gartner ‘s latest worldwide quarterly server stats has Oracle down as shipping 11,108 […]
Power p beats Oracle’s Exadata in Unix server punch-up
Power Systems running AIX cost less to run than Oracle’s new Exadata boxes, according to a new report published by IBM. American analyst International Technology Group (ITG) weighed up the three-year costs and performance of the two heavyweight combatants slugging it out in the Unix server war. And while some pundits tipped Oracle’s next-gen cohort […]