Sun Microsystems has benchmarked Thomson Reuters RMDS 6.0 on a Sun Blade X6250 Server Module powered by two-socket 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5450 processors (total 8 cores) system.  After applying best tuning practices for the Solaris/Intel platform, the benchmark achieved one of the best latency numbers for RMDS on 1GbE infrastructure.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, in combination with IBM System x and Intel solutions, tops competition with 1M tpmC benchmark

RALEIGH, NC – September 23, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has achieved a powerful, record-setting TPC-C benchmark that demonstrates the rapid improvements that open source software can bring to overall performance and costs.  In its fifth TPC-C result over 1M tpmC, Red Hat reduced price performance to a level 20 percent lower than the best competing non-Red-Hat result with a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on an IBM System x 3950 M2 with the new Intel X7460 Xeon processor.

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