Red Hat Linux trumps Unix on TPC price/performance test

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 2, 2008 3:34 AM EDT
SearchEnterpriseLinux; By Pam Derringer
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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.

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