(September 2, 2003) - BEA WebLogic Server™ has set record-breaking price/performance results proving that BEA can provide a 69 percent cost advantage over IBM. According to a recent SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark, BEA WebLogic Server achieved higher performance results with 131 percent more throughput and 69 percent less lower cost per transaction than IBM WebSphere. The benchmark configuration was conducted on generally available hardware and software including BEA WebLogic Server and BEA WebLogic JRockit™ running on HP ProLiant servers running 32-bit Intel Xeon processors. The price/performance metric takes into account the total cost of all hardware, software and three years of support.

These results prove BEA’s commitment to proving high-performance, vendor-neutral, and total-cost–of-ownership (TCO) advantages over the competition. BEA WebLogic Server has achieved world-record benchmarks on the widest variety of hardware, operating systems and databases, including: server hardware from Dell, HP, and Sun on processors ranging from PA-RISC to SPARC to Intel-based 32-bit and 64; all leading operating systems including HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows; and a range of databases from Oracle to Microsoft SQLServer.

The SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark is an independently designed and validated industry-standard benchmark that measures the performance of application servers running typical Java business applications. For complete details on benchmark results, please see the SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) Web site.