Oracle is accused of concealing HP server test results

In an attempt to highlight its SPARC server performance, Oracle has concealed the test results of rival HP ProLiant servers, according to people familiar with the news, Beijing time, March 11. Oracle has said last December that running Oracle databases on SPARC Supercluster, based on its SPARC t3-4 server, has created a world record for TPC benchmarks, with 30,249,688 transactions per minute, per TPM (　　The transaction cost is 1.01 dollars per minute. Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, then Ellison HP, citing the TPC test results of the March 2007 HP Superdome, which handles 4,092,799 transactions per minute, costing 2.93 dollars per TPM.　　The results show that HP server operation is slow and expensive.　　But sources from customers say Oracle has concealed the TPC test results of HP's ProLiant server, a ProLiant DL980 G7 handles 3,388,535 transactions per minute, costing 0.63 dollars per TPM, which is more cost-efficient than Oracle's servers. The news said TPC's failure to publish the results was largely thwarted by Oracle.　　The news also said HP expects Oracle Exadata servers to cost $2.4 per TPM.　　Oracle and Hewlett-Packard were a pair of very close friends, Oracle software and HP's hardware is a perfect match, many times among the top ten TPC price ratio. But since last year, after Hewlett-Packard's former CEO Hurd Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard appointed SAP former CEO Li Ai (Leo apotheker) as the new CEO, Oracle named Hurd as the co-president and other events after a series of incidents, two companies have been deteriorating relations, Mr. Ellison has repeatedly denounced HP. (Li Ming)