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IBM Power Systems give you 3x per core performance versus Oracle/Sun

FACT:Power Systems give you 3x per core performance versus Oracle/Sun.

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1,000 Oracle/Sun clients recently upgraded. To IBM Power Systems.


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Since 2009, over 1,000 clients moved business to Power Systems™ from Oracle/Sun. Some were swayed by up to 60% drop in IT costs. Others by the 3x per core performance (per both TPC-C and SAP SD benchmarks). And some by both. Though all saw the strong business case for moving. We'd welcome the opportunity to show how IBM Power Systems could help your organization, too.


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1 IT COSTS: All client examples cited or described are presented as illustrations of the manner in which some clients have used IBM products and the results they may have achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions. PERFORMANCE: www.tpc.org as of 3/28/11 [IBM Power 780 (3 x 64 C)(24 Ch/192 C/768 Th); 10,366,254 tpmC; $1.38/tpmC; avail 10/13/10 v. Oracle SPARC SuperCluster w/T3-4 Servers (27 x 64 C)(108 Ch/1728 C/13824 Th); 30,249,688 tpmC; $1.01/tpmC; avail 6/1/11]. TPC-C is a trademark of Transaction Performance Processing Council. www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/ as of 3/28/11 [IBM Power 795 (32 P/256 C/1024 Th); 126063 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0 pack4/AIX 7.1 + DB2 9.7; cert 2010046 v. Oracle SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 (64 P/256 C/512 Th); 39100 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0/Solaris 10, Oracle 10g; cert 2008042]. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. SHARE based on IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Q4 2010 Release 2/28/11. Uses Factory Based Revenue.


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